A year and a half removed from their grungy debut, Trophy Wife are officially announcing their return this summer with a second album called Pathetic via their new label AWAL. Like the songs that came before it, lead single “Kind of Girl I Am” is an intriguing blend of soft and heavy sounds within punk and indie rock, likely resulting from the group describing their set of influences as being “kind of all over the place.” “When we’re writing songs, [bassist Christian Pace] could be thinking about Nirvana while [drummer Michael Martelli]’s thinking about Björk, while [guitarist Mena Lemos] is thinking about Mannequin Pussy!,” vocalist McKenzie Iazzetta shares. “I think it’s us approaching the music from different angles that makes us who we are as a band.”
Likewise, the new track sees Iazzetta struggling to balance a number of personalities with much less satisfying results, existentially speaking. “I’m often going back to feelings I had as a teenager and seeing how they follow me into my life as I get older,” the band’s songwriter shares. “I remember deciding to contort myself into the things I thought would make me more likable or more attractive and the sense of control—whether real or not—it gave me over my life. By the time I got to my twenties, I’d tested out being so many different kinds of girls that I wasn’t sure which parts were real.”
Check out the track’s music video below, which sees Iazzetta play inebriated paparazzi to her band mates living their lives as the kinds of girls they are, and expect Pathetic to drop July 24.
