New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Dream Wife - Alice Go, Bella Podpadec and Rakel Mjöll - released their self-titled debut in 2018 to critical acclaim, earning support slots with the likes of Garbage,
Sleigh Bells and The Kills, sold-out international headline shows, secured syncs in shows like
Orange is The New Black, all the while using their platform to lift up other womxn and non-binary creatives with empowering messages and their "girls to the front" ethos.
Now, the band announces their explosive sophomore album, So When You Gonna…, dealing with topics such as abortion, miscarriage, and gender equality, and produced entirely by a non-male team of producer and mixer
Marta Salogni (Björk, Holly Herndon, FKA Twigs), engineer
Grace Banks (David Wrench, Marika Hackman) and mastering engineer Heba Kadry (Princess Nokia, Alex G, Beach House). While it touches on important themes, there's also an immediacy, a 'now or never' excitement that exists right at the core of this record, that encourages you to stop waiting and start doing. The album title is a play on that central idea. "It's an invitation, a challenge, a call to action," says Mjöll. So When You Gonna… will be released on July 3rd via Lucky Number.
To celebrate the album announcement,
Dream Wife share the album's lead single "Sports!" Having played almost 200 shows across 2018, the band forgot how to sit still, and turned to playing sports together while writing the new album. "Sports!" an ode to those moments in which they needed to expel some post-tour energy. It's an absurd, playful, moreish track, full of colourful guitar flourishes and winking vocal asides. The band self-directed and self-produced the music video as well, and you can read more about it below.
"Sports! sits on multiple levels; of satire and celebration, of nonsense and commonsense, of the body and the mind, of IRL and digital. The video simultaneously plays with and celebrates 'sports' through multiple levels of reality and non-reality; exploring the nonsense of sports, toying with the seriousness of competition and the rigidity of rules while also asserting how important it is to be in your body, the joy of being in a team, the purpose in doing something for the sake of doing it, the endorphins and the sweat.
Playing sports is great if that's for you but there are so many other ways to be physical, to be with your body. For us, more often than not, it's the rock show. Rock n roll is an extreme sport and we're a team."
Tour dates:
3/28 - Bristol, UK @ Ritual Union
4/3 - Paris, France @ Louis Vuitton Museum
4/23 - Cologne, Germany @ Pop Festival
4/25 - Reading, UK @ Are You Listening
5/1 - Liverpool, UK @ Sound City
5/2 - Edinburgh, UK @ Stag & Dagger
5/3 - Glasgow, UK @ Stag & Dagger
5/3 - Newcastle, UK @ Hit The North13th
5/13 - Dublin, Ireland @ Eastbound at Whelan's
6/5 - London, UK @ Wide Awake
6/6 -
Milton Keynes, UK @ Marshall
7/24 - Topcliffe, UK @ Deer Shed Festival
7/26 - Pikehall, UK @ Y Not Festival
