Philly noise rock mutants My Wife’s An Angel will release their new album, Keep Honking I’m About to Fucking Kill Myself on April 24 but you can get a hit of the suicide euphoria right now in the form of “American Dream,” the final track on the album and first released for public consumption.
Not much background is publicly given on My Wife’s An Angel—the band’s first recording was uploaded to Bandcamp in September 2023 and they really, really hate Philadelphia traffic (just read the record description). “American Dream” begins with a lengthy sample introduction before devolving into cacophonous noise rock.
Explaining the new song, My Wife’s An Angel told Decibel:
“‘American Dream’ is about the hundreds of lovely billboards we see off the highway when we are on tour. Specifically, most of the lyrics are actually taken from them verbatim. And we wanted it to sound like a car commercial, thru our fuzzy noise half-improv filter of course.
“What is very striking is the commanding, authoritative yet also infantilizing, patronizing tone of many of these. ‘GET YOUR DICK HARD, SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY ON SPORTS BETTING, EAT OUR SLOP, GET DRUNK SO YOU DONT THINK ABOUT HOW MISERABLE YOU ARE, SUE YOUR NEIGHBOR, DO THIS OR YOU’RE A F*KN LOSER’
“In 2026 we are pummeled with paid content at all times to the extent we don’t even think about it.
“In the sample Pres. Jimmy Carter intones against the ‘malaise’ of American citizens, doubting the purpose of their lives. Well how are we not supposed to feel that way? Here in 2026, we work paycheck-to-paycheck jobs essentially as serfs for the upper class with very little in the way of security, savings or hope for a better future save the vapid, libidinal escapist fantasies offered by the billboards and their ilk. Meanwhile, we know that every paycheck, our money goes to a federal government that empowers the most hateful and xenophobic among us to kidnap, torture and gun down both immigrants and American citizens alike with impunity. And many people say, ‘This is not what America is,’ while the genocide of the Palestinian people, again with our tax money is ongoing. When the people who killed a million Iraqis remain respected and in power. Millions more dead in Korea, in Vietnam, countless coups and death squads funded in Latin America and all over the world. We are citizens of a country founded on the genocide of the indigenous and slavery.
“The ‘American Dream’ of equality, freedom, and even the idea that we are much in control of our lives at all, has always been a trick to conceal this and foster complacency and now as we watch more atrocities unfold and our living standards worsen, this veneer grows thinner and seems more absurd every day.
“The end of Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, a company of marines marching through a burning, bombed-out Vietnamese village while singing the Mickey Mouse song, the empire of genocide and death with a cutesy smiling face. That is the true American Dream. Fancy.”
If you like what you hear, you can get Keep Honking I’m About To Fucking Kill Myself on April 24 via Knife Hits, GRIMGRIMGRIM and Broken Cycle.
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