San Francisco three-piece Wealthy Women today share “Shit Breaks,” the fourth single from their debut album Children, due 7th August and produced by Scott Evans (Neurosis, SUMAC, Autopsy).

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.”

Children is out on the 7th of August, 2026.
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