Album Review - Good Health Good Wealth – This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires

WORDS HARRY K

GOOD HEALTH GOOD WEALTH

"This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires"

Out Friday 14 November

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Essential. One of the year’s most human, hopeful debuts.

After a whirlwind year that’s seen Good Health Good Wealth tear through 17 festivals (including unforgettable turns at Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds), rack up BBC Radio 1, 6 Music and Introducing spins, and complete a European tour with Big Special, the London duo are closing 2025 with a debut album that hits hard, thinks deep, and refuses to play it safe.

This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires isn’t just an album — it’s a week in the life, stretched into a decade-long coming-of-age story. Each track represents a day of the week, reflecting the highs, lows, hangovers and hope of twenty-something life in a city that can chew you up before breakfast.

Vocalist Bruce Breakey is the storyteller at the centre — half poet, half everyman — finding grit and grace in daily grind. Simon Kuzmickas handles the multi-instrumental chaos, folding indie, drum’n’bass, ska and garage rhythms into something uniquely their own. The result is a record that’s funny, raw, and heartbreakingly real.

Track by Track

1. “Full Circle” (Wednesday: The Parking Ticket)

A parking ticket kicks off the story — the kind of mundane moment that spirals into reflection on routine and repetition. The UK-garage-leaning beat and sharp vocal delivery set the tone for everything that follows: grounded, witty, and impossible to shake off.

2. “The Café” (Thursday: The Ex)

We’re in breakup territory — cold coffee, colder silence. The production strips back to slide guitar and soft percussion, giving Bruce’s conversational flow room to breathe. It’s beautifully uncomfortable, the sound of trying to move on while still sitting in the same seat.

3. “You Don’t Know Me” (feat. Fredwave) (Friday: The Show)

The adrenaline spikes. This one’s about being seen — onstage, online, in your own skin. Fredwave’s guest spot adds tension and texture, while Bruce plays with identity and expectation like someone staring down their reflection mid-gig.

4. “White Men” (Saturday: The Blackout)

Chaos takes over. Fast, loud and confrontational, it’s the soundtrack to a night that went too far and the memory you can’t quite piece together. The riffs hit like flashing lights; the beat is relentless.

5. “I Forgot” (Sunday: The Bottom)

The comedown. Piano-driven, slow and devastating, this is where the mask slips. Bruce’s vocals sound bruised but honest, recounting lost days and blurred thoughts with a quiet sort of courage.

6. “Beautiful Boy” (Monday: The Phone Call)

A pulse of light returns. There’s warmth in the chords, sunshine in the groove. It’s about reconnection, small victories, and the kind of conversation that can change your week — or maybe your year.

7. “This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires” (Tuesday: The Start)

The title track closes the loop — not with triumph, but with defiant optimism. It’s the sound of someone dusting themselves off, ready to try again. The rhythm skips between indie pop and drum’n’bass energy, carrying one of Bruce’s most quotable lines: “You can always rewind the tape and record over the bad bits — but that’s madness, man. The rough makes the smooth.

Across its seven-day arc, the record blends sharp observation with undeniable hooks. There’s wit in the writing, warmth in the imperfections, and a rhythmic restlessness that keeps it moving. You can hear echoes of The Streets, Baxter Dury, and Bloc Party, but Good Health Good Wealth sound firmly like themselves — grounded in modern London life, unfiltered and unafraid to look messy.

This is a debut that captures what it feels like to be young, broke, hopeful and still standing. The narrative might dive through frustration, burnout and bad decisions, but it never stays down for long. Hope doesn’t roar here — it hums quietly, resiliently, under every beat.

Good Health Good Wealth have made the rarest kind of debut: one that feels lived-in, self-aware and completely alive. It’s a record about fighting to stay afloat, about losing your way and laughing about it later. Every lyric lands like a snapshot from a diary you swore you’d never show anyone — but you’re glad someone finally did.

This isn’t a promise of fame. It’s a promise to keep going.

5/5

★★★★★

TOUR DATES

NOVEMBER

20th - Leeds, Headrow House (SOLD OUT)

21st - Manchester, Deaf Institute (SOLD OUT)

22nd - Glasgow, McChuills (SOLD OUT)

27th - Birmingham, Dead Wax (SOLD OUT)

28th - Bristol, Louisiana (SOLD OUT)

29th - London, Oslo (SOLD OUT)

30th - Brighton, The Hope & Ruin (SOLD OUT)

DECEMBER

13th - Dublin, Whelan’s (SOLD OUT)

FEBRUARY 2026 - SUPPORT TO BIG SPECIAL

13th - Norwich, Waterfront

14th - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms

15th - Newcastle, Digital

18th - Leeds, University Stylus

19th - Glasgow, SWG3 Warehouse

20th - Manchester, New Century Hall

21st - Birmingham, O2 Institute

24th - Bristol, Electric

25th - Southampton, The 1865

27th - London, Roundhouse

MARCH 2026 - SUPPORT TO BIG SPECIAL

6th - Dublin, Academy - Green Room

7th - Belfast, Ulster Sports Club

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