MCD Productions presents Good Health Good Wealth

The slice-of-life narrative of their recent single ‘Full Circle’ showed that Good Health Good Wealth possess a flair for making life’s minor moments feel like they’re worth documenting. The track hurried their rise, adding a Radio X session, shows with Noisy and Hard-Fi, and a place in The Sun’s New Faces For 2025 to their burgeoning status after previous Radio 1 support from Jack Saunders and Sian Eleri. Now the duo live up to that support as they share the new single ‘The Cafe’.

Forget about your bougie hipster breakfast destinations, as Good Health Good Wealth instead take us into a classic old school cafe beloved by locals who have seemingly been attending since the dawn of time. As sausages sizzle and cutlery clanks, it’s the setting for a break-up song with a difference: in this case, a final summit that won’t deliver any closure for either party. Bruce Breakey’s distinct spoken word drawl breaks into a passionate, soulful flow as the emotion of the story takes over, while producer Simon Kuzmickas shows his versatility with sparse beats, mournful slide guitar and a redemptive psych-rock finale.

Bruce says, “A break-up only ever works, at least from my experience, if you cut it off completely. The odd catch-up back down your favourite cafe is never going to be that simple. This song is about navigating that tricky grey area between the initial break-up and the actual break-up. As comforting, familiar or exciting it may be to meet up for a chat, someone has to rip off the plaster eventually.”

Both ‘The Cafe’ and ‘Full Circle’ provide a taste of the relatable city snapshots and diverse sonics that permeate their upcoming EP. The pair have cited the likes of Ian Dury, The Streets and Madness as influences, and they’re all present in their observational songs. Yet this is music for 2025, its stories replicated within walking distance of your front door and underpinned by touches of contemporary and ‘90s-tinged electronica.

While Bruce is a lifelong east Londoner, Simon was born 1300 miles away in Vilnius, Lithuania and was raised on a diet of British culture. Perhaps English life wasn’t entirely how he imagined it to be, but he very naturally fit in amongst the nation’s dry wit and almost comic pessimism. Naturally they met – where else? – in a pub.

Good Health Good Wealth played their first international gig late last year when they hit Viva Sounds in Sweden. Next up is a London headline show at The Lower Third which sold-out three months in advance. Their schedule also includes a Birmingham show with Oneda, their New York debut at The New Colossus Festival, and the Get Together Festival which features headliners English Teacher.