Kristina Wilson Finds Power in Heartbreak with Debut Album "Dating Broken Boys"
Kristina Wilson is stepping into the spotlight with her debut album, Dating Broken Boys, on October 4, 2025—an album that doesn't sound so much released as opened, like a key to her diary. Crafted out of rough-around-the-edges heartache, surprise comedy at love's missteps, and sweet triumph of self. The album is an introspective map of how to get lost and painstakingly re-sew the pieces back together. Through twelve songs, Kristina guides us on a path that is both intensely personal and universally identifiable, mapping out the dysfunction and perception that relationships often leave behind.
If her lead single "Dumbitchitis" was a taster, then the album is serving the full banquet. That track, its title teasing and its language as cutting as knives, captured the exhaustion and the humor of hanging around too long in the wrong story. Sung with indie-pop duo Like Angels, it married wit and vulnerability, hinting at Kristina's ability to translate agony into melody and secret into chorus. "It's like a virus you catch when you fall for someone—or just the idea of them," she says, and the song's prescience has lingered in the air since.
Composed over late nights in a small Forestville apartment, Dating Broken Boys is both catharsis and conversation. Each song appears to be illuminated by passing whispers from strangers or friends, and they intermingle as a tapestry of stories we tell ourselves about who we are in love and what we become when love falls apart. The opening track, "Let The Boy Go," sets it all up with lush, velvety, pulling listeners into the heaviness of Kristina's voice. By the final cut, "Who They Are," we are ushered into something dreamlike and film-like—her voice disintegrating into soundscapes that are akin to closing credits on a life chapter.
Musically, the album veers from indie-pop radiance, alt-folk intimacy, and rock grit, likened to the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Julia Jacklin, and HAIM but never losing Kristina's own voice. Dating Broken Boys was co-produced by Ethan Saunders and Ian Mehrle, and this is more than a debut—this is a portrait of an artist claiming ground as a storyteller. And when October 4 arrives, individuals everywhere will be able to carry that portrait in their hands, in their headphones, and perhaps even in their hearts.
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