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Jennifer BEN BRAHIM

Dream Wife: Punk rockers making the political playful

Jennifer Ben Brahim Inequality London
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In this edition of our music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets the London-based trio Dream Wife ahead of their concert at Paris's Pitchfork music festival. They started as a university performance project, similar to "This is Spinal Tap". Three albums later, they're a fully-fledged rock band with a musical manifesto: dismantling the patriarchy and railing against inequality. Their third album "Social Lubrication" is packed full of political punch and razor-sharp wit.

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