Veronica Bianqui Takes Aim at Wealth Worship on Satirical New Single “Money”

Los Angeles-born and now London-based multidisciplinary artist Veronica Bianqui returns with “Money,” the latest single from her forthcoming sophomore album, Use Once Then Destroy, due out November 13th, 2026 via NX Records.

A playful and irreverent take on our relationship with wealth, “Money” introduces another side of the album’s larger-than-life world, pairing sharp satire with unexpected production and a growing sense of confrontation.

“I started giving myself writing prompts before every song because I wanted to get out of my own habits. For ‘Money,’ the challenge was to somehow combine hyper-pop, hip hop, folk rock, and glitchy production,” Bianqui shares.

What’s funny is that you probably wouldn’t point to the finished song and hear those genres, but the prompt pushed me into making creative decisions I never would’ve made otherwise—like chopping up my guitar into these stuttering, glitchy textures. Lyrically, it became a satirical look at the way we worship money. I loved the idea of presenting that obsession almost like a nursery rhyme, repeating ‘Money, money…’ until it gradually mutates into something much more confrontational with the ‘fuck that shit, burn it to the ground’ section. I’m always drawn to those kinds of contradictions—humour and anger, sweetness and aggression, light and dark existing in the same song.”

On Use Once Then Destroy, Bianqui builds a world of larger-than-life characters — obsessive lovers, antiheroes, rock stars, self-destructive brats. Familiar rock ‘n’ roll tropes are exaggerated, inverted, and reimagined through dark humor, vivid storytelling, and a playful approach to the genre’s mythology. Bianqui balances sharp satire with emotional intensity to explore obsession, desire, power, and disposability, while questioning the myths we create around ourselves and others.

Written over four years following her move from Los Angeles to London, the album emerged during a period of profound loss and personal change that reshaped both her life and artistic direction. It developed alongside the completion of two Master’s degrees—an MMus in Popular Music and an MFA in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths University, where Bianqui deepened her practice as a producer, embracing the recording studio as an extension of the songwriting process.

Adopting a more DIY approach, Bianqui gave herself permission to follow ideas without knowing exactly where they would lead. She self-produced the record–playing much of it herself–and recording wherever the project could move forward. Outside musicians and engineers still contributed along the way — among them, Omar Yakar (Courtney Barnett, Warpaint), who mixed the record — but the studio became less a place to execute finished ideas than to discover them. Trusting her own instincts, she approached the recording process with a renewed sense of play, allowing songwriting and production to evolve together. Rather than smoothing every rough edge, Bianqui let curiosity and instinct guide the process. The result is a record that pairs classic pop craftsmanship with punk energy and inventive production, moving fluidly between satire, confession, and a cast of heightened personas.“Money” by Veronica Bianqui is out October 16th. Use Once Then Destroy is out November 13th via NX Records. 

Use Once Then Destroy Tracklisting

1. Gotta Be A Man
2. Lose All Control
3. Do Bad To You
4. Chemical Reaction
5. Shook Up
6. Sicko
7. Rock ‘N’ Roll
8. Renegade Girl
9. All My Heroes Are Dead
10. Use Once Then Destroy
11. Money

Veronica Bianqui Live

9/30 – London, UK –  The Old Dispensary

VERONICA BIANQUI BIO:

Veronica Bianqui is a Los Angeles-born, London-based artist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose music balances classic pop and rock songwriting with left-of-center indie rock.

Bianqui has been recording songs since she was six years old — filling boombox mixtapes in her childhood bedroom in California’s San Fernando Valley with original songs, covers, invented radio segments, and imaginary talk-show hosting — an early instinct for songwriting and self-invention that never left her.

She began performing in LA’s famous clubs — like the Rainbow Bar & Grill and the Cat Club — as a teenager, before she was legally allowed inside. She cut her teeth in the underground eastside scene shaped by garage rock, psych, and punk, and went on to tour the U.S., Europe, and South America with several bands, including LA’s The Blank Tapes and Brooklyn’s Suo, supporting The Growlers just before Covid shut everything down and sent her back to LA. Years on stage built a live presence rooted in raw energy and strong musicianship — LA Weekly called her 2018 Echo Park Rising set “one of the best things I saw all weekend.”

Her work has earned recognition from Grimy Goods and Buzzbands LA, which named her a “One to Watch,” with airplay from KCRW, KCSN, and KXLU. She’s shared bills with Alex Lahey, The Rubens, Mikal Cronin, The Coathangers, Dead Sara, The Warlocks, and Capital Cities, and supported Kula Shaker at The Regent Theater in Los Angeles in 2023. She was recently featured on “Wasting Your Time” by Mickey Avalon, produced by Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal.

In December 2020, Bianqui released her self-titled debut album, co-produced with Matt Adams of The Blank Tapes. Songs like “Aah, Paris…” and “If Love’s a Gun, I’m Better Off Dead” reflected her love of hook-forward songwriting and riff-laden, loud guitars in the tradition of 60s/70s rock and pop. At the time, her live band swelled to as many as 11 members — rhythm section, horn section, backup singers, go-go dancers — a showcase of classic showmanship.

While Bianqui continued playing shows and making music, a series of devastating personal losses soon changed the course of her life. After a period of grieving, she cleared out that same childhood apartment where she made her first songs — and, following her heart, decided to move to England. In London, she turned toward her art, completing a Master’s in Popular Music and an MFA in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths University and sharpening her voice as a producer and recording artist. What began in loss became an unexpectedly empowering period of reinvention.

Bianqui now lives and works in London. Her second album, Use Once Then Destroy, due in Fall 2026, marks a new chapter: a more modern, self-directed collection of hook-heavy indie rock shaped by punk energy and playful production — building on the garage-rock foundations of her earlier work without losing sight of the songwriting at its core.