Edit history

On Monsters’ Rights Wifey fail to learn how to play alt-country properly, often wander through dive-bar disco or sweaty-pub guitar wrangling, but always come back to that which matters most: The song. Between the voices stolen from past lovers or borrowed from sex-workers for that long night, the unwalled confessionals or the confident manifestos of total, utter confusion, Wifey songs will make you glad to do something you know you shouldn't, and give you something to hide from that partner standing there right next to you.

Since sliding out of the birth canal in April 2008 Wifey have won the Sydney University band competition and the NSW state campus competition. They have supported talents like Smudge, Youth Group, 78Saab, Jeff Lewis (USA), Hugo Race (Ex Bad Seeds), The Beautiful Girls, Kill Devil Hills and Howe Gelb (of Giant Sand). The Sydney five piece incorporate violin and keys, creating original, literate indie rock that "at times sound like a cross between Okkervil River and Dexys Midnight Runners with their melodic sensibilities." (doubtful sounds) “what’s really to get excited about here is the playful bounce of the beguiling Eccentric Boogaloo or the Elvis Costello-ish Chop it Off. Although the fiddle occasionally drags Wifey into folk cliché, theirs is a distinctly Australian sound that tips an accomplished nod at American greats such as Bonny Prince Billy and Tom Waits…no bad thing at all.” (faster louder)