ANGEL WINGS IS OUT NOW!!!! this one is different from anything I’ve ever done before, I’m excited and nervous and ready to take the leap, I think you guys are gonna love it!!! @jeremyhatcher @iamtommyenglish @kflay thank you for bringing this to life with me, and i wasn’t kidding when i said this might be my favorite song ever. i’m so lucky to call you collaborators and friends <333
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- Page 3“Hiding queerness from your "friends" is hard, but hiding it from "God" is a battle of life and death. I mean, how could I not fall in love with the secrecy of it all, the feeling of being on the run? "I know something you never will"... sure bud, good luck with that.” - Vienna Vienna
- “Gen Z Ennui and ’80s Influence” - SPIN“Vienna Vienna is unapologetically himself in his music, infusing vibrant energy into his relatable, anthemic lyrics.” - CONSEQUENCE “Vienna Vienna’s sound is melody-forward, built on a foundation of shimmering reverb, electric guitar riffs full of personality, and juicy hooks lathered in witty playfulness, and ultimately, empowerment.” - ALT PRESS
- Page 5The new single follows January’s Entertain Me EP, a project born from a period of personal clarity and artistic expansion. Across the release, Vienna Vienna interrogated modern distraction - drugs, the internet, self-destruction, desire - and the ways people lose themselves trying to escape reality. Since its release, Entertain Me has amassed over 1.8 million streams and earned early tastemaker support, including a conversation with Allison Hagendorf and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, alongside a feature from SPIN. Vienna Vienna’s momentum continues to build online as fan-favorite track “Make a Man Out of You” recently saw streaming jump following its sync placement in the season finale of Off Campus, soundtracking one of the show’s major cliffhanger moments. Currently a top 10 series on Prime Video in the U.S., the placement has already sparked a wave of discovery across platforms as excitement around the finale continues to grow.
- Reaping what I sow, Reaping what I sowAnother domino meets another domino I know something you never will
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“Gen Z Ennui and ’80s Influence” - SPIN
“Vienna Vienna is unapologetically himself in his music, infusing vibrant energy into his relatable, anthemic lyrics.” - CONSEQUENCE
“Vienna Vienna’s sound is melody-forward, built on a foundation of shimmering reverb, electric guitar riffs full of personality, and juicy hooks lathered in witty playfulness, and ultimately, empowerment.” - ALT PRESS
Los Angeles-based artist Vienna Vienna has made a career out of turning emotional wreckage into something euphoric. On his new single, “Angel Wings,” out today via PULSE Records and DCD2 Records, he pushes that tension even further, channeling despair and existential collapse into an anthem built for screaming out your window.
Waving between grimy ‘90s guitar textures, punchy live-wire drums, and lyrics soaked in desperation, “Angel Wings” opens like a slow emotional bleed before detonating into a soaring chorus carried by J’s magnetic, pleading vocals. It’s a song that treats hiding your true self less like solemn reflection and more like an uncontrollable physical force.
“I know something you never will / Save your breath for the judge / Angel wings, Angel dust,” J shouts across the chorus, delivering one of the year’s most cathartic hooks with equal parts sneer and sincerity.
Built around dynamic instrumentation and a volatile emotional center, the track captures the signature chaos of Vienna Vienna’s self-described “Glimmer Rock” universe where queerness, dread, theatricality, and dance-floor release all coexist in beautifully unstable balance.
Speaking on the song, J says, “Hiding queerness from your ‘friends’ is hard, but hiding it from ‘God’ is a battle of life and death. I mean, how could I not fall in love with the secrecy of it all, the feeling of being on the run? ‘I know something you never will’... sure bud, good luck with that.”