Work Wife: Racket 2025

Brooklyn folk-rockers Work Wife can tear it up with raucous abandon or spin more pensive reveries. Either way, their songs, like the brand new sparkler "Centerfold," are the perfect score to blustery autumn days, as vivid as amber leaves tumbling like acrobats across a street. Work Wife's decidedly October vibe suits their debut album, Parade, which is released on Halloween eve via the Philly label Born Losers.

Work Wife —  singer and guitarist Meredith Lampe (Sea Lemon, Colatura),  Cody Edgerly (drums), Kenny Monroe (bass), and guitarist Isaac Stalling — have released a couple of EPs, 2022's Quitting Season and 2024's Waste Management,  but Parade marks a new chapter for the band.

Lampe and Stalling played a stripped-back, five-song set for FUV's Marquee Members at Racket back in June, ahead of a headlining show from Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins. 

Work Wife's music drifts between mellow melancholy and dark humor (they have a song called "Brian Eno," about a breakup). Lampe and Stalling brought a tender intimacy to their short Racket set, exemplified by videos below of two of their songs: "RV Parks" from Parade and "Too Young to Understand," found on Quitting Season.

[Recorded: 6/18/25; Engineered by Jim O'Hara; Produced by Meghan Suma, hosted by Sam Sumpter. Videographers: Erin Merriman, Alena Godas, and Olivia Iannaccone.]