The desert often represents scarcity, a place where few signs of life can be found. For the women in Blood Lemon, however, trading their homebase in the high desert of Boise, Idaho for the low desert in Joshua Tree, California would prove to be the right choice to give the five songs found on Petite Deaths their final form.  

“Small bursts of either pleasure or despair,” says bassist and vocalist Melanie Radford of the collection comprising Blood Lemon’s sophomore release. “I think what came out was something eclectic and mystic,” she added. Using the seemingly scant resources of the Mojave, Radford, guitarist and vocalist Lisa Simpson, and drummer/percussionist Lindsey Lloyd, culled together their strongest set of songs to date.