Los Angeles-born and now London-based multidisciplinary artist Veronica Bianqui returns with the announcement of her sophomore album, Use Once Then Destroy, due out November 13 via NX Records. Alongside the announcement, Bianqui is sharing lead single ‘All My Heroes Are Dead,’ a cheeky, candid, and cathartic burst of energy that introduces the record’s larger-than-life world.
“Every once in a while I get the absurd impulse to bleach my hair, like that’s somehow going to change how I feel inside,” Bianqui shares. “When I wrote ‘All My Heroes Are Dead,’ that urge came back, and I could feel my self-destructive side creeping in again — so instead of acting on it, I turned it into a character. I imagined a bratty teenager who’d decided everything was a bit shit and leaned all the way into the chaos. There’s a lot of me in her, but she’s exaggerated — the volume turned all the way up. The song became my way of bringing some levity to a heavy subject, and reminding myself not to take every dark thought so seriously.”
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.
Use One Then Destroy:
- Gotta Be A Man
- Lose All Control
- Do Bad To You
- Chemical Reaction
- Shook Up
- Sicko
- Rock ‘N’ Roll
- Renegade Girl
- All My Heroes Are Dead
- Use Once Then Destroy
- Money
