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laughs. “I feel like this body of songs helped me understand what I was going through more,” she continues as her bandmates agree, “and also what I was going through helped me to understand the songs more.” It’s not just their own music and their own experiences that have proved educational. Venturing into the medium of podcasts, the group are sharing an ongoing series of conversations with friends, collaborators, and creatives. “We learned so much from working in the studio with Marta, from the people that we collaborate with, from people that we admire…” Rakel enthuses. “We were just having such interesting conversations we wanted people to get in on them, to share them, to be a
part of them.” The ‘So When You Gonna…’ podcast shines a light on everything from songwriting and production to coding and magic and more besides. “It feels like the kind of conversations I wish I could have heard when I was a teenager,” Alice expresses. “Normalising positions in the creative industries for non-males is really important, and I think it was a way to shine a light on that.” “Hearing their routes through the creative industry, and not glamorising it the whole time,” Rakel describes, “those are the podcasts I love because they’re human. They’re real.” At a time when contact with people outside of our households has been prohibited, that sense of something
human to connect with is ever more valued. It might be a while until we can let loose at shows together again (Dream Wife’s next tour is scheduled for April / May 2021), but with the release of ‘So When You Gonna…’ the band are doing everything they can to keep their connection alive. “For me, listening to music right now feels like this teenage feeling of finding a kind of a connection, or tapping into some kind of emotion, on a bigger scale, outside of your own situation in the immediate space before you,” Alice conveys. “I’m really excited to see how people digest [the new album] in this situation where people are physically distanced and isolating.” “When the album’s out, other people can develop their own
relationships and their own meanings with the songs,” Bella affirms, “and other peoples’ meanings and interpretations can then kind of fuel and feed your own understanding.” Her bandmates are quick to enthuse with her. “I can’t wait to see what that conversation is.” What the future might hold is uncertain. Where we go from here is unclear. As Dream Wife ready to share their second album with the world, perhaps what’s next could be best summed up by the band themselves on buoyant album standout ‘Validation’. “This could be something special,” they sing, “let’s see.” P DREAM WIFE’S ALBUM ‘SO WHEN YOU GONNA...’ IS OUT 3RD JULY.
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