Computerwife – Born From A Wish
Addie Warncke’s music as Computerwife has always lived between digital life and tangible reality. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Warncke started making music as a teenager after hearing Grimes break down the making of “Kill v. Maim” on Song Exploder and downloading a free trial of Ableton to follow her process. In 2018, she moved to New York to study at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, uploading her first songs as Computerwife to SoundCloud during her freshman year and later gathering five favourites for the Computerwife EP at the start of COVID lockdowns.
Over the next few years, Warncke continued writing and recording, though she deleted her entire stock of demos in a moment of personal crisis. When she signed with Los Angeles independent label Danger Collective, she had to dig through emails, folders, and digital ephemera to see what could be recovered. A Google Drive of songs she had sent to an ex-boyfriend became Computerwife, released in 2023, an album of fuzzy shoegaze, slacker rock, late-’90s haze, and big feelings played into a little microphone.
In July, Computerwife emerged from a period of hibernation to go on tour with Feeble Little Horse, and just ahed of those dates she shared her first single since her 2023 album, a track called “Nobody,” that Stereogum described as “a piece of fuzzy, riffy alt-rock that deconstructs and reconstructs ’90s alt-rock sounds, reflecting the aesthetics of a couple of different generations.”
Today, Warncke is back to announce her sophomore LP Born From A Wish, which will be released on November 6th on Danger Collective.
To mark the announce she is sharing a new single called “Foreverrr.”
Her new album came together in the background in the immediate aftermath of Computerwife, comprising snippets of Warncke’s life in Atlanta and New York during a transitional period. She traveled back to Atlanta when pandemic lockdowns shut down in-person schooling and removed students from their dorm room housing.
She remembers that interlude on “Foreverrr,” a dreamy pop song about a nights spent back in touch with old friends sharing vyvanse, making art, and smoking cigarettes near her old high school. Even now, she looks back on those months as though they’re part of a dream. “All I did was wake up and bike to my job at the restaurant. There was nothing to spend money on. We’d drink bottles of wine in the park and draw and read poetry and listen to music.” Even as she sat at her computer, attending class over Zoom calls, she would have a lump of clay in front of her so that she could sculpt something as she listened. It was, she says, “a little break to enjoy the purest form of life.”
Warncke adds of the song:
I wrote this after reflecting on being back in my home city during the lockdowns. Atlanta looks totally different from where I live now and it was shocking to go back to. Once I adjusted I had a sense of closure, like I could fully appreciate living there as an adult for the first time. It’s about laying in the grass and reading poetry with my childhood friends during that summer, and walking through the forested streets at night going to the bars. It’s the same simple moments of peace I appreciate the most anywhere, just in this specific setting of where I grew up. This song is in respect for how it felt to live there.
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