If Not Winter is the debut studio album by the American musician Wisp, released on August 1, 2025 through Music Soup and Interscope Records. She collaborated with multiple record producers including Stint, Aldn, Julian Emken, Photographic Memory, Kraus, Grayskies and Elliott Kozel, and started worked on new material in 2024.
The album was promoted by the singles "Sword", "Get Back to Me", "Save Me Now", and "Breathe Onto Me". Wisp is scheduled to embark on a headlining tour of North America and Europe in support of the album from August to November 2025, crossing over with a tour supporting System of a Down.
Background and recording
In April 2024, Natalie Lu a.k.a. Wisp released her debut extended play (EP) Pandora.[1] Following a tour in support of the EP in April and May 2024, she began working on her debut album.[2] By January 2025, she was still in the early stages of writing and recording.[3][4]
Whilst working on If Not Winter, Wisp drew influence from the Cocteau Twins album The Moon and the Melodies (1986),[5]Chappell Roan,[4]Whirr and Slowdive.[6][7] She aimed to make it a cohesive[3] and story driven album with greater pop and electronic music influences that would move her past the shoegaze label earned early in her career, which she now found limiting.[5] Wisp described If Not Winter as her "diary" full of entries of her childhood dreams.[8] The album is named in reference to the Sappho poetry collection If Not, Winter (2002).[7]
On March 14, 2025, Wisp released "Sword" as the lead single from If Not Winter.[15] On April 13, 2025, Wisp debuted "Get Back to Me" and an untitled song live at Coachella;[16] the former was released the album's second single on April 18.[17][18] In an interview with Paper, she said the album was intended for release in July 2025.[16] On June 6, 2025, "Save Me Now" was released as the third single.[19] On June 24, 2025, Wisp announced If Not Winter had been completed after a year in production[20] and would be released on August 1; a visualizer for "Save Me Now" was released concurrently.[21][22] "Breathe Onto Me" was released as the album's fourth single on July 18, 2025.[23] "Serpentine" was released as the album's fifth and final single on July 29, 2025.
Wisp is scheduled to embark on a headlining tour of North America and Europe in support of If Not Winter between August 22 and November 2, 2025.[21][24] In between the tour, she is scheduled to support System of a Down between August 22 and September 3.[24]
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