Good Health Good Wealth are on the rise

Years ago, Bruce Breakey and Simon Kuzmickas were at a flat in Dalston, unseriously playing around with the music production software FrootyLoops. “We made this tune, it’s never come out, but it’s called ‘Local Legend’. It’s about this girl I used to know from back in the day who became a porn star. It was a funny, Ian Drury, Madness type of thing – a house-y beat,” Breakey says. They were just having a laugh with it, but when they listened back, they realised “there’s quite a lot to this. We started making a few more of those things that were a lot more of that spoken-word storytelling. That came to the forefront of everything and we were like, this feels cool. This feels different.”Today, as Good Health Good Wealth, Breakey and Kuzmickas incorporate indie rock, hip hop, and dance music into their songs, but back then they were two members of a punk trio, which had met and formed in a Wetherspoons pub. “We met through our mate,” Breakey says. “He was intro-ing us. It was a bit like a blind date, like, ‘I know this guy who plays guitar.’” Breakey – an East London native – and Kuzmickas – who grew up in Lithuania – might sound like an unlikely pairing on paper, but all the same they...