: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Dream Wife : Album.......: So When You Gonna... : : Label.......: Lucky Number .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: LUCKY141CD . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-07-03 Str.date....: 2020-00-00 Quality.....: 261kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://dreamwife.bandcamp.com/ ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Sports! 3:24 2. Hasta La Vista 3:42 3. Homesick 3:03 4. Validation 2:54 5. Temporary 2:55 6. U Do U 3:43 7. RHRN 3:31 8. Old Flame 3:43 9. So When You Gonna... 3:39 10. Hold On Me 3:58 11. After The Rain 5:48 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 40:20 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 79.10 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Brighton trio Dream Wife, who last year headlined one of NME’s :, : Girls To The Front gigs – showcases for female and non-binary : :' artists – have never taken anyone’s shit, and they’re not about ': ,: to start now. Their stellar self-titled 2018 debut album was :, : stuffed with feminist punk anthems and Rakel Mjöll (vocals), : :' Alice Go (guitar) and Bella Podpadec (bass) have delivered an ': ,: outspoken, subversive follow-up. :, : : :' ‘Sports!’ is a perfect album opener. With a discordant guitar ': ,: riff, Mjöll comes in with “fuck sorry / fuck please will you so :, : kindly start again”. It is a call-to-action for womxn everywhere : :' – stop apologising for what you do, and just do it. ': ,: :, : ‘Sports!’ is an urgent and adrenaline-fuelled song, layered with : :' many different meanings and dripping with sarcasm. The song is ': ,: an ode to the time the band spent together while writing this :, : record, expelling some of their post-tour energy after spending : :' nearly two years shouting and playing crashing guitars on ': ,: stages across the world. It’s a playful track full of sport :, : clichés, as Mjöll sings “put your eye on the ball when it’s in : :' your court”, with the song exploring the sexist trope of male ': ,: condescension in sport. “Do you even play this sport?” she asks :, : ironically. : :' ': ,: The song’s hook sees her repeat “put your money where your mouth :, : is” – and Dream Wife certainly do that. The band have been : :' outspoken about the gender inequalities in the music industry ': ,: and wider world since their inception, and worked with an :, : all-female recording team for ‘So When You Gonna..’., including : :' producer and mixer Marta Salogni (who’s helmed projects from ': ,: Björk, Holly Herndon and FKA Twigs). :, : : :' The team of womxn who supported this album can be heard ': ,: throughout the record – it just sounds organic and comfortable. :, : “It was amazing to work with this community of womxn who are : :' supporting each other in an industry that is so male-dominated, ': ,: bassist Bella Podpadec has said in a statement. “It was a way of :, : us practicing what we preach.” : :' ': ,: Read more: On the cover – Dream Wife: “Just because we’ve got :, : vaginas, it doesn’t make us a ‘girl band’” : :' ': ,: ‘So When You Gonna…’ is not all heavy garage-punk, though. :, : Though the album is made up of shorter, punchy tracks, it is : :' filled, too, with more emotional, quieter heartfelt moments ': ,: too, which switches from riot grrrl band to indie anthems. The :, : emotional crux of the album occurs on ‘Temporary’, a song about : :' miscarriage: “If the heartbeat fails / Know I’m here / With a ': ,: full embrace / How is it to love and live temporary?” It’s :, : refreshing to see a topic usually so surrounded in shame sung : :' about so openly, the band not shying away from describing the ': ,: pain miscarriage causes, but also uplifting the womxn who have :, : experienced it. “With every loss, how do you carry through? / : :' Know you’re brave to jump back into / I’ll applaud it”. ': ,: :, : On ‘After The Rain’ they address abortion, another taboo and : :' difficult topic. As stories of reproductive justice and ': ,: abortion rights dominate headlines, Mjöll lay herself bare, :, : revealing “I’m feeling very honest today” on the first line of : :' the song. Following in a similar vein to that of the band’s ': ,: 2017 song ‘Somebody’, which explored sexual assault, the music :, : slowly crescendos as Mjöll cries out: “It’s my choice, my life / : :' iI’s my body, my right”. ': ,: :, : The band are the queens of vocal asides, a fact no more apparent : :' than on the title track, which sees spoken-word missive overlap ': ,: with electrifying screamed vocals. “Pull me closer” Mjöll sings :, : before the whispered response: “just a little bit.” Here they’re : :' telling womxn to speak up for what they want, to be unashamed, ': ,: direct and fully communicate their desires. She repeats the :, : lyric “so when you gonna kiss me?” over and over, until at the : :' end, we get a classic Mjöll vocal aside in the punchline: “Too ': ,: bad they were a bad kisser.” :, : : :' So ‘When You Gonna..’ is also a call out to a disenfranchised ': ,: generation. Dream Wife challenge the next generation of singers, :, : producers, mixers, writers, guitarists, filmmakers and more to : :' just do it. “You do you / Don’t waste your time with fools who ': ,: don’t value you”. At its core, the album is about stopping :, : waiting and starting doing, with a ‘now or never’ attitude. On : :' ‘RH RN’ – a shortened version of the phrase ‘right here, right ': ,: now’ – the band repeat “We are the youngest we will ever be / We :, : are the oldest we have ever been / Right here right now”. It’s a : :' call to live in the present, an invitation to stop waiting for ': ,: perfection and to use your talents as best you can. :, : : :' With a mixture of classic punk and dance-pop, Dream Wife also ': ,: hark back to the early New York sound of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, :, : with a heavy dollop of riot grrrl attitude. The band have : :' extended the ‘girls to the front’ ethos into every part of ': ,: themselves, from production to music to live performances. With :, : so much honesty packed into the 11 tracks, the album is an : :' invitation and a challenge to go after what you want – without ': ,: apologising for it. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/