Can we get a “ya!” in the chat? Can we get a redo of the last 20 years?
Regardless of the answers to the above, what we do know is that Computerwife is back with a new single, a fuzzed-out, lo-fi, ’90s-bent alt-rock life lesson called “I Get Better Everyday.” The project of New York City-based artist Addie Warncke dropped the single and video today (July 10), and it’s as soupy as the weather outside. “I Get Better Everyday” will be featured on Computerwife’s forthcoming self-titled debut album, released August 4 via Danger Collective Records.
“When I made this song, I thought I was gaining control of my life and building self confidence,” says Warncke. “This is one of the first songs that taught me how to write lyrics. I was reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer and wrote down interesting words and then found ways to use those words to express my own thoughts.”
The video, directed by Jackson Katz (Brutus VIII), finds Warncke truly throwing it back to the last great decade, with some cinematic inspiration, dying her hair and piercing her ear in real time.
“I wrote and recorded ‘I Get Better Everyday’ as an 18/19 year-old thinking that I was becoming the best version of myself while losing it mentally” she adds. “It reminded me of the movie Thirteen which covers the same kind of story. After I moved out of my last apartment, I had my entire bedroom in storage, so it was really easy to recreate it in Jackson’s white studio. We settled on doing a fucked up Thirteen-style makeover in the bedroom and chose the home piercings, hair dye, and destroying belongings as classic manic teenager activities.”
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