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, channelling despair and existential collapse into an anthem built for screaming out your window. Vienna Vienna is also set to return to the UK with a tour kicking off in London on September 9th.

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.”

The 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, the placement has already sparked a wave of discovery across platforms as excitement around the finale continues to grow.

For Vienna Vienna, the music reaches its fullest form onstage, where emotional chaos becomes catharsis, spectacle, and release. Blending glam theatrics with basement-show intensity, his performances turn shouted confessions into communal singalongs that feel equally unhinged and euphoric. Days out from touring in support of G Flip, with a debut Europe and UK tour around the corner, Vienna Vienna will also appear at all U.S. dates of the 2026 Vans Warped Tour.

TOUR DATES:
Aug 3 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY*
Aug 4 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY*
Aug 6 – The Sinclair – Boston, MA*
Aug 7 – Le Studio TD – Montreal, QC*
Aug 8 – The Mod Club – Toronto, ON*
Aug 10 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL*
Aug 18 – The Roxy Theatre – Los Angeles, CA*
Aug 20 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA*
Aug 22 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR*
Aug 24 – Hollywood Theatre – Vancouver, BC*
Aug 27 – Downtown Summer Sounds – Seattle, WA*
Sept 9 – Camden Assembly – London, UK
Sept 10 – Deaf Institute – Manchester, UK
Sept 11 – Oporto – Leeds, UK
Sept 13 – The Garage (Attic Bar) – Glasgow, UK
Sept 14 – The Hope & Ruin – Brighton, UK
Sept 16 – Yard Club – Cologne, DE
Sept 17 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, NL
Sept 18 – Reeperbahn Festival – Hamburg, DE
Nov 13-15 – Warped Tour – Orlando, FL