Wealthy Women Release “Shit Breaks” From Debut Album ‘Children’
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Wealthy Women share a new single, “Shit Breaks,” from their upcoming debut album Children. The track shifts inward, addressing the realities of domestic abuse through a personal and deeply reflective lens. Produced by Scott Evans, it continues the band’s dark, politically charged sound while highlighting the emotional weight at the heart of the record.
A press release from Wealthy Women’s team announced that their debut album Children is due out 7th August.
Where previous singles have looked outward – at war, at immigration, at the machinery of political cruelty – “Shit Breaks” turns inward. It is a quiet, devastating account of spousal abuse, drawn from a formative personal encounter with the realities of domestic violence.
Of the single, the band say: “This song is about the first time someone shared their experience of partner abuse with me. I hope I handled it with as much sensitivity as the youthful me thought he did. It was a wake-up call for me at the time since I was lucky enough to grow up without exposure to violence against women. It’s devastating that these things happen every day, and it’s enraging that it is minimized and/or ignored by society.”
“One of the more odious features of the ascendant Masculinists among us is their wilful blindness to the everyday experience of women. I don’t know if it’s another gift of the algorithmic age or if people have always been so quick to dismiss an experience they themselves have not had, but every woman clutching their car keys in an empty car park understands. Women have to be cautious because there’s no visual difference between ‘bad men’ and ‘not all men’.”
“Musically, the song maintains a dark, brooding intensity that fits the subject matter. The song was transposed to a lower tuning during the writing process as the lyrics coalesced around an examination of the darkness inside men.”
Listen to “Shit Breaks” HERE
“Shit Breaks” arrives in the context of an album shaped by the political weight of 2025. Written largely in the wake of Trump’s re-election and recorded at Antisleep Audio in Oakland, Children examines the crises that define this political moment: the online radicalisation of young men, the human cost of cruel immigration policy, and the casual inhumanity of modern war. Two members of the band are US immigrants – Don Doblados, the Bay Area-born son of Filipino immigrants, and Peter Sisk, the band’s chief songwriter, who moved from Ireland to the US in 2017 and has watched the country change around him ever since. That outsider vantage point runs through everything on the record.
Watch the video for “Shit Breaks” below:
The eight tracks that make up Children move between outrage and grief, with satire and dark observational humour used to vary the emotional register. “37 Days” tells the story of Asaad al-Nasasra, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic detained by Israeli forces after an attack that killed eight of his colleagues. “Take It Back” follows a woman who supported harsh immigration policies until she finds herself caught in the machinery of immigration enforcement. “Atheist Wife” wears the mask of a love song to skewer the Christian Nationalist view of women. “Worst Date” stares down the misogyny peddled by the Manosphere. “Siege,” written in late 2024, describes Trump’s second term with a prescience that still stings. The title track closes the album in mourning for the children of Gaza and Ukraine. “Men of the West” stands apart as the lyrical outlier, drawing its horror not from the present but from the deep past.
Children is out on the 7th of August, 2026.
Pre-order Children HERE
Children tracklist:
37 Days
Men of the West
Take It Back
Atheist Wife
Worst Date
Shit Breaks
Siege
Children
Wealthy Women are:
Peter Sisk – guitar/vocals
Don Doblados – bass
Andrew Harms – drums
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