Artist's albums
Social Lubrication
2023 · album
Social Lubrication
2023 · single
Who Do You Wanna Be?
2023 · single
Orbit
2023 · single
Hot (Don't Date A Musician)
2023 · single
Leech
2022 · single
Bullet (Dream Wife Remix)
2021 · single
IRL (Live in London 2020)
2020 · album
Cheap Thrills (Live in London 2020)
2020 · single
So When You Gonna...
2020 · album
Temporary
2020 · single
So When You Gonna...
2020 · single
Hasta La Vista
2020 · single
Sports!
2020 · single
Dream Wife
2018 · album
Hey Heartbreaker
2018 · single
Fire
2017 · EP
Somebody
2017 · single
FUU
2016 · single
EP01
2016 · EP
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Biography
“The gatekeepers, the so-called legends / Ya boys gonna let the girls play? / Or are they merely ornaments on display?” so states “Leech”, the bold and explosive first single from Dream Wife's long-awaited third album Social Lubrication. It's a rock-heavy, call-to-arms for empathy, in a world still propped up by patriarchal systems and underhand codes of silence. “Empathy is what allows us to collaborate, to build things together and to make things that are larger than the individual,” says bassist Bella Podpadec today. “But there is also a lot about modern society that denies us access to that, and teaches us that it's bad or dangerous.” Dream Wife have always been adept at merging the political with the playful, and Social Lubrication is no different. Vital statements are hidden within hot and heavy dancefloor anthems about making out, having fun and staying curious. On silly, sexy stand-out “Hot”, the band wryly poke fun at musicians – including themselves. “Don't date a musician,” sings Rakel over infectious, B52's-style drums and jagged, angular melodies. “They'll think you're competition / I was never competition, I was just… hot.” Ultimately, much of the album is about lust: sexual lust, lust for life, lust for letting loose, lust in the face of having to be a nice, polite “good girl.” “A 'good girl' is not the same as a good person,” says Rakel. “That's something I've had to shed a lot.” Social Lubrication, out now.