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Computerwife: the dorm-room SoundCloud diary that became a touring rock band
Addie Warncke spent three years making almost nothing after her 2023 debut. She returns on 6 November 2026 with a second album, Born From A Wish, and a North American run built around its release date.
A Song Exploder episode and a free Ableton trial
Computerwife is the work of Addie Warncke, who grew up in Atlanta and started the project in 2018, the year she began at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She had no production experience and no band. What she had was an episode of Song Exploder in which Grimes talked through how she built her records, which was enough to make Warncke download the free trial of Ableton.
The equipment list from those years is short and has been repeated in her label biography ever since: her father's guitar and bass, a Fender Deluxe amp, a Focusrite interface, a laptop, and a dorm-room bed to sit on. SoundCloud was the destination rather than a stepping stone — she has described using it as a diary, uploading tracks to record how she felt rather than to build an audience. The self-teaching took roughly three years.
When the pandemic closed things down she gathered five of those songs into a self-titled EP. That release was what brought Danger Collective Records to her, and the label has put out everything since.
A debut assembled from what survived
The first Computerwife full-length arrived in 2023, also self-titled. Its assembly is unusual: Warncke had deleted her original files during a personal crisis, and the album was pieced back together from recovered demos and whatever had been left sitting in Google Drive, with recycled mp3s sitting alongside newly re-recorded instrumentals. The lo-fi texture is partly a decision and partly a consequence of what was left to work with.
Post-Trash reviewed it on 6 September 2023, with Danny Cooper describing a record of electronic, shoegaze-inflected noise pop and reaching for Broadcast as an antecedent while placing Warncke next to contemporaries including They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and feeble little horse. The review singled out 'Vacation' for its jangle and its drums, 'I Get Better Everyday' for its hook, the lead single 'Lexapro' for its hesitancy, and 'Oops' as the high point. Its summary of the album's subject matter — depression, self-doubt, and the difficulty of telling the authentic from the constructed when most of life is mediated by a screen — has stuck to the project since.
A month later, on 5 October 2023, Talkhouse published a conversation between Warncke and Lydia Slocum of feeble little horse. Warncke spent most of it asking the questions, but two remarks are worth keeping. One was about collaboration: the artists whose work moved her already had their creative partners, and finding her own was hard. The other was about output — 'pretty much every time I make a song, I feel like I'm never going to make another song again.'
Three years of silence, broken in Las Vegas
That last line turned out to be close to literal. Nothing new followed the debut for three years. The silence ended with 'Nobody', released on Danger Collective ahead of a summer run supporting feeble little horse, and billed accurately as her first new track since 2023.
Warncke named Sonic Youth, Autolux, Dear Nora and Spraydog as reference points while she was writing it, and described the song as a love song with a specific setting: 'Nobody is about being in love in Las Vegas, taking pictures of my boyfriend in hotels, driving through the desert, and staying up all night... It's about the power of sharing the world with someone else even though no relationship is ever perfect.' Stereogum characterised the track as fuzzy, riffy alt-rock that takes late-1990s guitar sounds apart and puts them back together.
The tour behind it ran through the American south in July 2026: The Broadberry in Richmond on the 11th, Motorco Music Hall in Durham on the 12th, The Social in Orlando on the 14th, Crowbar in Tampa on the 15th, Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on the 17th, and The Basement East in Nashville on the 18th. The Atlanta date put her on a large stage in the city the new record keeps returning to.
Born From A Wish
On 24 August 2026 Warncke announced the second Computerwife album. Born From A Wish is out on 6 November 2026 through Danger Collective, twelve tracks: 'Thank You', 'Foreverrr', 'Autopsy', 'You Didn't Know', 'Nobody', 'Pretty Ugly', 'Normal', 'Hammered', 'Honey', 'Failure', 'Surreal' and 'Oh No I Threw Up'. 'Nobody' sits fifth, which recasts the single as part of a sequence rather than a one-off return.
The announcement came with 'Foreverrr', and with an explanation that locates the record geographically. 'I wrote this after reflecting on being back in my home city during the lockdowns,' Warncke said. '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.' She has also described walking through forested streets at night in that period.
Where the debut was made from salvage, this one was written across the unsettled stretch that followed it. The press framing has shifted accordingly — less noise-pop diary, more dream pop with the guitars still turned up. Pre-orders went up on Bandcamp at announcement.
From a laptop and a bass to a three-piece
The earliest Computerwife sets were Warncke alone with a laptop, a sampler and a bass. That has been replaced by a band: John Supnik on drums and Dalton Salisbury on guitar, a configuration the label credits with giving the songs a heavier, larger sound than the recordings carry.
The gigography bears out how much of the last few years has been spent in support slots. Songkick lists Panchiko as her most frequent co-biller, at seven shared shows, and logs New York as the city she has played most, at thirteen appearances. Its tracker count for the project stood at 13,381 in September 2026.
September 2026 brought a short Midwest stretch on bills with POiSON GiRL FRiEND: King of Clubs in Columbus on the 15th, The Roxy at Mahall's in Lakewood on the 16th, House of Blues in Chicago on the 17th and The Rave in Milwaukee on the 19th — the two largest rooms Computerwife has played to date.
The show, now
A Computerwife set in 2026 is short, loud and unfussy. The July support dates were logged at nine songs each and roughly half an hour on stage — Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on 17 July ran 8.10pm to 8.40pm, The Broadberry in Richmond on 11 July 8.00pm to 8.35pm — drawing on both albums at once, with 'I Get Better Everyday', 'Vacation', 'Lexapro' and 'You Make It Look So Easy' from the 2023 debut sitting beside 'Honey', 'Failure' and 'Surreal' from the unreleased Born From A Wish. Setlist.fm has 'You Make It Look So Easy' as the most-played song of the run, at seven outings, with 'Lexapro' and 'Vacation' on six each. Staging is minimal: a three-piece with Warncke fronting, Supnik on drums and Salisbury on guitar, a long way from the laptop-and-sampler sets the project began with. Six North American dates are on sale for November, billed with Pretty Sick — The Atlantis in Washington DC on the 1st, The Foundry in Philadelphia on the 2nd, Brighton Music Hall in Boston on the 4th, Warsaw in Brooklyn on the 6th, Mod Club in Toronto on the 8th and El Club in Detroit on the 9th — with Globe Hall in Denver on the 13th and Polaris Hall in Portland on the 16th also listed. The Brooklyn date falls on the album's release day.
Researched from stereogum.com · ourculturemag.com · northerntransmissions.com · dangercollective.com · post-trash.com · talkhouse.com · spillmagazine.com · femmusic.com