HotWax Share "Wanna Be A Doll" - Ghettoblaster Magazine

The UK’s HotWax – Tallulah Sim-Savage, Lola Sam, and Alfie Sayers – will release their debut album, Hot Shock (Marathon Artists), on March 7, 2024. The LP’s 10 tracks explode with adrenaline-jolted anthems about abandoning fear and leaping boldly towards the future and were recorded with co-producer Catherine Marks (Boygenius, Wolf Alice) alongside Steph Marziano (Picture Parlour, Cassandra Jenkins), and also recorded with Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa. Today, HotWax shares “Wanna Be a Doll” – the latest single from the new album which exemplifies the pulse of vulnerability that underscores the album. Sim-Savage says, “This is the first song we wrote for the album and we re-wrote it in so many different ways. And it ended up pretty similar to the first version, which seems to be how it goes. It’s a song where I am writing about myself from someone else’s point of view, being self-aware of my bad, sometimes destructive, traits.”

Along with the single, comes another electrifying video from the trio. Watch the official lyric video for “Wanna Be A Doll,” created & edited by Sim-Savage and filmed by her along with Stewart Baxter.

HotWax previously shared the album’s opener, “She’s Got A Problem” – a motoring barrage of grunge rock that has become a mainstay of the band’s live set over a packed summer of touring and festivals, as well as a live version of the song recorded at London’s iconic RAK Studios. They played both singles and other fan favorites on a recent run in the UK supporting The Libertines and Warmduscher on various dates. In March 2025 the band will head out on a run of in-store shows in the U.K. to celebrate the Hot Shock release. See all live dates below.