Rich Ladies share a brand new single, “Shit Breaks,” from their upcoming debut album Kids. The monitor shifts inward, addressing the realities of home abuse by way of a private and deeply reflective lens. Produced by Scott Evans, it continues the band’s darkish, politically charged sound whereas highlighting the emotional weight on the coronary heart of the report.
A press launch from Rich Ladies’s group introduced that their debut album Kids is due out seventh August.
The place earlier singles have appeared outward – at warfare, at immigration, on the equipment of political cruelty – “Shit Breaks” turns inward. It’s a quiet, devastating account of spousal abuse, drawn from a formative private encounter with the realities of home violence.
Of the only, the band say: “This track is concerning the first time somebody shared their expertise of associate abuse with me. I hope I dealt with it with as a lot sensitivity because the youthful me thought he did. It was a wake-up name for me on the time since I used to be fortunate sufficient to develop up with out publicity to violence in opposition to girls. It’s devastating that these items occur each day, and it’s enraging that it’s minimized and/or ignored by society.”
“One of many extra odious options of the ascendant Masculinists amongst us is their wilful blindness to the on a regular basis expertise of ladies. I don’t know if it’s one other present of the algorithmic age or if individuals have all the time been so fast to dismiss an expertise they themselves haven’t had, however each girl clutching their automobile keys in an empty automobile park understands. Ladies must be cautious as a result of there’s no visible distinction between ‘dangerous males’ and ‘not all males’.”
“Musically, the track maintains a darkish, brooding depth that matches the subject material. The track was transposed to a decrease tuning throughout the writing course of because the lyrics coalesced round an examination of the darkness inside males.”
Hearken to “Shit Breaks” HERE
“Shit Breaks” arrives within the context of an album formed by the political weight of 2025. Written largely within the wake of Trump’s re-election and recorded at Antisleep Audio in Oakland, Kids examines the crises that outline this political second: the net radicalisation of younger males, the human value of merciless immigration coverage, and the informal inhumanity of recent warfare. Two members of the band are US immigrants – Don Doblados, the Bay Space-born son of Filipino immigrants, and Peter Sisk, the band’s chief songwriter, who moved from Eire to the US in 2017 and has watched the nation change round him ever since. That outsider vantage level runs by way of every little thing on the report.
Watch the video for “Shit Breaks” beneath:
The eight tracks that make up Kids transfer between outrage and grief, with satire and darkish observational humour used to range the emotional register. “37 Days” tells the story of Asaad al-Nasasra, a Palestinian Crimson Crescent paramedic detained by Israeli forces after an assault that killed eight of his colleagues. “Take It Again” follows a lady who supported harsh immigration insurance policies till she finds herself caught within the equipment of immigration enforcement. “Atheist Spouse” wears the masks of a love track to skewer the Christian Nationalist view of ladies. “Worst Date” stares down the misogyny peddled by the Manosphere. “Siege,” written in late 2024, describes Trump’s second time period with a prescience that also stings. The title monitor closes the album in mourning for the youngsters of Gaza and Ukraine. “Males of the West” stands aside because the lyrical outlier, drawing its horror not from the current however from the deep previous.
Kids is out on the seventh of August, 2026.
Pre-order Kids HERE
Kids tracklist:
37 Days
Males of the West
Take It Again
Atheist Spouse
Worst Date
Shit Breaks
Siege
Kids
Rich Ladies are:
Peter Sisk – guitar/vocals
Don Doblados – bass
Andrew Harms – drums