Youth in Revolt:
Just when it seems Punk really is dead along comes all-female trio Dream Wife with this intense and idiosyncratic debut which, if it doesn’t quite reinvent New Wave, certainly re-infuses it with youthful charisma.
Having formed initially as part of a performance art project, the band have developed a formidable reputation as a live act, but their anarchic image is backed up by tracks as infectious as Fire, Somebody and Love Without Reason – all defined by angular guitar, pulsating bass and Icelandic-born Rakel Mjöll’s spiky, sloganeering vocals.
In a perfect world all bands would sound like Dream Wife, but it’s encouraging at least that just one of them does.
This review first appeared in the Irish News
James JW Robinson 