Following a ten year gestation period, Sydney's premier alt-country, sleaze-disco, pop-rock outfit Wifey are set to launch their much-touted debut album Monsters’ Rights in Melbourne this April.
Since launching the new album in Sydney in May 2017 via a successful crowd-funded campaign, Wifey have been promoting Monsters’ Rights in their hometown via a series of headline shows.
Written by the band’s singer / guitarist Andy Calvert, all eleven tracks on Wifey’s Monsters’ Rights LP tell striking stories with charm and wit, while driving the genre-bending sounds that the band has built its reputation on. Weaving violin and keys mellifluously into walls of noise and intoxicating prose, Wifey have been said to sound like a cross between Okkervil River and Dexys Midnight Runners with a nod to Bonny Prince Billy and Tom Waits.
Wifey is concocted by a line-up of seasoned musicians, each having spent many years working with a vast range of bands and artists from Sydney’s independent music scene including Whopping Big Naughty, The Givegoods, 78 Saab, El Mopa, Something For Kate and Sarah Blasko.
This will be the band’s first Melbourne tour in over five years.