Dream Wife – Rakel Mjöll, Bella Podpadec and Alice Go – will release their second album So When You Gonna… this July, and the band have shared the album’s second single , accompanied by a music video compiled from childhood home footage, alongside the release of their new podcast’s first-ever episode. Check out ‘Hasta La Vista’ here:
Dream Wife on “Hasta La Vista”:
“Hasta is one of the first songs we wrote after we completed our touring cycle for our debut album. We’d played over 200 shows in 18 months and had returned to London to discover that things around us had changed and so had we. Close relationships fell apart and others came together. This song is about accepting and embracing that change and being thankful to what that was and what it is today.
Being on tour has some similarities to living under quarantine – the separation from loved ones, the submission to the process, the large amounts of time in contained spaces with the same group of people. We built this band around relentless touring and the celebration and love of the live show and the community that it creates. And we’re very much looking forward to experiencing that again, when the time is right.”
Today also marks the launch of Dream Wife’s new So When You Gonna… podcast series. Having always been outspoken about holding up other womxn and non-binary people in the arts and creative industries, the band have– as they say in the record’s first single “Sports!”–“put their money where their mouth is” with this new series. Each episode is a one-on-one interview with a different creative, connected with Dream Wife, about how exactly they managed to hone their craft.
With a gender divide in music production currently estimated at around ninety-five percent male to five percent female, it felt right for the first episode to feature the new album’s producer Marta Salogni discussing how to get into music production in an in-depth conversation with Rakel. Future guests include Ione Gamble editor/arts director and writer, Aidan Zamiri video director, Paolina Russo fashion designer, Chloe Sheppard photographer, Estella Adeyeri musician/Girls Rock UK, Girli songwriter & musician, Ayesha Tan Jones activist & artist, Adele Slater live agent at Paradigm, Bishi musician and founder of Women in Technology creative industries Hub and Soph Nathan guitarist/musician.
