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| Background information | |
| Origin | Brighton, England |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
| Labels | Lucky Number Music |
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| Website | dreamwife |
Dream Wife is an English, London-based band, whose sound is a mixture of punk rock, pop music and indie rock.[3][4][5] The band consists of Rakel Mjöll (lead vocals), Alice Go (guitar, vocals), and Bella Podpadec (bass, vocals).[6] They have been supported by Alex Paveley on drums since 2018.[7][8]
In 2018, the band was included on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 13 Best Things We Saw" at that year's Lollapalooza music festival.[9] Kev Geoghegan and Paul Glynn of BBC Music called Dream Wife "a jaw-dropping live act and one of the most talked-about new bands of 2018."[10] Joe Lynch of Billboard wrote "Dream Wife are inarguably one of the most exhilarating live rock bands to emerge within the last few years."[11]
- ^ Christgau, Robert (12 August 2020). "Consumer Guide: August, 2020". And It Don't Stop. Substack. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
Fronted by Iceland-born, California-raised, art school-finished Rakel Mjöli, this London-based all-female pop-punk trio picked their name before they'd ever played together and have a ways to go before matrimony per se is likely to be within their ken. Sex and romance, however, Mjöli has a bead on from the male-bonding pissoff 'Sports!'—'Time is money/Never apologize/These are the rules'—to a finale called "After the Rain" where she both craves and rejects a tenderness that can only be provisional in a line of work that keeps her on the move. She knows sex and romance are easier to come by for a minor rock star, and is up for one or both from 'Validation' to 'U Do U' to 'So When You Gonna . . .' But the crux here is called 'Validation' because she knows that's the tough one without having figured out how to get it or why exactly she needs it so.
- ^ Andrews, Kernan (25 January 2018). "Album review: Dream Wife". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Kaplan, Ilana (9 February 2018). "Dream Wife: 'We don't fit that mould of how people think women in music should be'". The Independent. London. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ Zaleski, Annie (18 January 2018). "Review: Dream Wife, 'Dream Wife'". npr.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ Rayner, Ben (27 September 2018). "Canadian dream inspired Dream Wife, fast-rising band playing Toronto on Saturday". Toronto Star. Toronto. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ Lester, Paul (19 February 2016). "New band of the week: Dream Wife". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ Nicholas, Coyne (26 January 2018). "Dream Wife Talks Influence And Their Sound". tidal.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ^ "Dream Wife: 'We need to practise what we preach'". BBC News. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ^ Legaspi, Althea; Klinkenberg, Brendan (6 August 2018). "Lollapalooza 2018: The 13 Best Things We Saw". Rolling Stone. New York City. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ Geoghegan, Kev; Glynn, Paul (25 May 2018). "Six acts to discover at Biggest Weekend". BBC Music. London. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
Dream Wife have evolved from an art school project to a jaw-dropping live act and one of the most talked-about new bands of 2018.
- ^ Lynch, Joe (8 March 2018). "Dream Wife on Accidentally Creating 'A Party Album' & Why Bands Are Like Marriages". Billboard. New York City: Lynne Segall. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
Dream Wife are inarguably one of the most exhilarating live rock bands to emerge within the last few years, straddling the fine line between fun and ferocity while blasting crowds with their mixture of late '70s post-punk and early '00s New York rock.