Social Lubrication
On Social Lubrication, Dream Wife make it crystal clear that they’re not here to “play nice” anymore. As Mjöll succinctly puts it: “I’m not here for the social lubrication / I’m here for the cremation” and you should be too.
A record that’s both a progression, and that shows off wonderfully just what made them so exciting to begin with.
Dream Wife enjoyed a critical and commercial peak with their 2020 breakthrough album So When You Gonna… that most notably included a place in the Top 20 of the U.K. Albums chart.
There may not be a more apt lyrical statement better suited to address the gaping moral hole in Britain’s current political establishment than the
The London-based trio make the political playful, powered by punk. Album New Music review by Cheri Amour