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Issue 23

featuring The Hara New Issue Out Now
Single Review: Good Health Good Wealth – WHO WHAT WHERE WHY

"Pulsating with cockney charisma and razor-sharp wordplay."

W: Mandy Morgan

WHO WHAT WHERE WHY proves that Good Health Good Wealth can heavy up their sound without sacrificing their infectious knack for storytelling. It’s tense, swaggering, and deeply satisfying—a bold evolution that establishes GHGW as one of the most vital, genre-defying acts operating in the UK underground.

East London duo Good Health Good Wealth—vocalist Bruce Breakey and guitarist/producer Simon Kuzmickas—have built their reputation on earworm hooks, funk-laced beats, and sharp, observational portraiture of modern British life. But on WHO WHAT WHERE WHY, the pair pivot into murkier, more aggressive territory without losing an ounce of the sharp-witted bite that put them on the map.

"Gritty post-punk guitars meet hypnotic dub loops and classic London kiss-offs."

The track marks a distinctly darker-hued twist on the signature GHGW sound. Opening with a hypnotic, subterranean dub bass loop, the rhythm section is underpinned by blunt, brash beats that ground the track in raw dancefloor gravity. Layered over this pulse are gritty post-punk guitars from Kuzmickas, carrying a wire-taut tension that directly echoes the post-punk urgency of Sleaford Mods or IDLES.

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Yet, despite the track’s harder-edged, late-night production tone, Bruce Breakey’s delivery ensures the soul of GHGW remains front and center. Pulsating with the same cockney charisma and razor-sharp wordplay that fuelled earlier standouts like ‘Full Circle’ and ‘For Once In Our Lives’, Breakey turns everyday urban friction into poetic ammo.

Proudly asserting his roots and identity, he delivers his verses with equal parts warmth and venom—culminating in one of the most unapologetic, classic London kiss-offs in recent memory:

“What’s my favourite pub in London? Anywhere you’re not.”