Remi Wolf Follows “Bottle” With a Confessional “Champagne”

On Mud, out October 9, Remi Wolf places “Champagne” right after “Bottle,” two of the songs she says are about arrival to terms with being done drinking.

Mud places “Champagne” directly behind the opener “Bottle,” and Remi Wolf has describe the two in the same terms. In a recent interview, she grouped them, along with “Wine Drunk,” among the songs that deal with accepting she was finished with drinking. The album is her third and arrived October 9 through Island Records, the label behind her earlier records.

Signal. What happened: Remi Wolf’s third album, Mud, arrived with “Champagne” as its second track. Exact object: “Champagne,” an album cut of about three and a half minutes on the 11-track record, and not one of the three singles rel ahead of it. When and where: October 9, 2026, on stream services including Apple Music, through Island Records. Source: Wolf’s own comments about the song and the album’s official rel listing. Why it matters: Wolf places the song among the tracks on Mud about coming to terms with being done drinking, on a record she describes as more vulnerable than her earlier ones.

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Wolf has tied the album to a hard stretch: a breakup, years of near-constant tour, and a return to sobriety shortly before she wrote most of the record. She says she set out to write about how she was actually feeling and to heal, and that she wanted to do it among people who felt like home, a tight circle of friends and regular convincer. Sessions ranged across Nashville, Big Bear, New York and Joshua Tree.

She has also been specific about the sound she wanted. Her first goal was that every song could be played on an acoustic guitar around a campfire and still hit hard, and across the record that shows up as plenty of acoustic guitar alongside gritty electric guitar. She wrote roughly 130 songs, and the ones that stayed had to feel emotionally messy and uplifting at once, the second half of that test being what she and her collaborators call “SpongeBob Ascendance.”

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Mud follows 2024’s Big Ideas, and Wolf frames it as a deliberate change of direction in sound from her earlier records. Three singles led the rollout, “Twiggy” on July 31, “Bottle” on August 20 and “I Won’t Cry” after that, and “Champagne” was not among them. Wolf announced the album itself on August 18.

Wolf says the response to the singles has landed in a way she may not have experienced before, with listeners connecting on a deeper emotional level than the going-out energy that defined her earlier records, and that she was scared about the shift. She points to “I Won’t Cry” and “Guess” as songs that lay her bare, and she hopes the album can soundtrack listeners’ breakups and triumphs alike.

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Mud runs eleven tracks and includes a guest turn from John Mayer on “Moon So High,” with “Champagne” sitting second in the sequence, between “Bottle” and “Twiggy.”