| Photo Credit: Justin Buschardt LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Work Wife + Mary Hood – “Drown Me Out” Stream / YouTube LISTEN & SHARE: Work Wife – “Creases” Soundcloud / Spotify / YouTube LISTEN & SHARE: Work Wife – “Plastic Windows” SoundCloud / Spotify LISTEN & SHARE: Mary Hood – “Lake Sebago” Stream LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Mary Hood – “Come Back Earth” Stream / YouTube The first in Brooklyn-by-way-of-Seattle indie pop artist Work Wife’s series of collaboratively-written tracks with other female artists in the Brooklyn indie scene, “Drown Me Out” was co-written with upstate New York native Mary Hood. The track describes their shared experience of being told how to live your life by someone who hasn’t walked in your shoes. A true collab, Meredith Lampe (of Work Wife) brought the half-finished song containing only the verse groove to Mary, who wrote the super catchy chorus. After getting in a room together to flesh out the lyrics, they came up with the outro together on the spot. Work Wife’s collab series was meant to foster community and collaboration, and this track serves as a true kickoff to the series as the two songwriters created a friendship along with the song.The duo teamed up with producer Stefan Macarewich (Wallows, No Vacation) to help produce and mix the track, which was then mastered by Jennica Best (Tessatura Studio, Colatura). The release is paired with a music video.  WORK WIFE LINKSInstagram | Website | Spotify | Twitter | SoundCloud | Facebook MARY HOOD LINKS Website | Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Soundcloud Work Wife is the dream pop project started by Brooklyn-based musician Meredith Lampe (also of Colatura). With influences such as Men I Trust, Faye Webster, and American Football, Work Wife blends contemporary synth pop elements with melancholy lyrics and surf rock instrumentals to achieve music that evokes her own dark humor. She writes and produces out of her home studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and plays live joined by drummer Cody Edgerly, Kenny Monroe on bass and Aida Mekonnen on lead guitar.Work Wife’s debut EP (collaborators TOLEDO, Jay Som) is set to release fall 2022, following their East Coast / Midwest tour summer 2022. Mary Hood is a rising voice from a digital generation singing about old school themes like loneliness, love, loss, and longing. Influenced by folk, 90s alt rock, midwest emo, and jazz, she is drawn to brutally honest storytelling and dissonant melodies. Drawing inspiration from songwriters and bands like Big Thief, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, and she captures difficult emotions and specific life events in vivid detail, with a raw, ethereal voice and fingerstyle guitar. Her music has an ability to bring you to the present, while yearning for the past. Mary’s band members include Chris Curtin, Brian Hart, and Billy Coughlin.  Photo Credit: Justin Buschardt |
