Total Wife unveil new album 'Come Back Down' via Julia's War

TOTAL WIFE UNVEIL NEW ALBUM COME BACK DOWN  VIA JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS  IMMERSIVE, TEN-TRACK RECORD NAMED STEREOGUM'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK - READ HERE SECOND LEG OF U.S. TOUR BEGINS LATER THIS MONTH  AT DRUNKEN UNICORN IN ATLANTA, GA, ON SEPTEMBER 21 ALBUM RELEASE SHOW IN NASHVILLE, TN, ON SEPTEMBER 22 AT DRKMTTR  WITH SUPPORT FROM MILA CULPA, BABY WAVE, AND SOUR TOOTH

Photo Credit: Sean Booz  “Total Wife splice, dice, and defile their gorgeous creations, hybridizing noise-pop with everything from slowcore to breakbeats.” - STEREOGUM, ALBUM OF THE WEEK “Come Back Down is a shoegaze triumph and one of the year's best records.” - ELI ENIS, CHASING SUNDAYS “Fans of Loveless and freaks who find musicality in the hums of vacuums or air ducts are bound to find a whole lot to love.” - CONSEQUENCE “A wall of sound that presses on the ear drums nicely, like someone holding your face in their hands. It’s dreamy but off-kilter, like staggering home after being kissed until you pass out.” - VICE “With a band prolific as Total Wife, it’s a challenge to pin  down their music as any particular sound.” - NASHVILLE SCENE “Their music shifts between electronica, shoegaze, and noise-pop; it can feel like taking in a bunch of different emotions at once: overwhelming and hypnotizing, soothing and explosive.” - NINA PROTOCOL “Blending dreamy textures, DIY grit, and recursive logic, Nashville duo Total Wife craft music that’s as emotionally grounded as it is sonically adventurous.” - STILL LISTENING MAGAZINE Nashville experimental duo Total Wife, the project of Luna Kupper and Ash Richter, are excited to share their new album Come Back Down, available everywhere now via the tastemaking Philadelphia label Julia’s War Recordings. An immersive, ten-track record filled with everything from breakbeats and techno influence to recycled homemade samples and cascading riffs, Come Back Down reconfigures the experimental and complex with precision, redefining what shoegaze can sound like.  “This album is made from a single thought unfolding endlessly," Kupper explains. "I was always trying to remind myself of the initial idea and always fall back on how I felt when I first fell in love with recording.” LISTEN TO COME BACK DOWN  Total Wife has become a fixture of the East Coast DIY scene over the past decade, cementing themselves as scenemakers in Nashville, TN. Today’s release comes after the arrival of singles, “peaches,” “make it last” and “second spring,” building upon their varied and rich discography. These songs were quickly praised by the likes of Stereogum, Consequence, Alternative Press, and more tastemakers. Come Back Down was previewed late last year with the band’s 0 EP, featuring heavy-hitting tracks “naoisa” and “(dead b).” WATCH “PEACHES” LISTEN TO “MAKE IT LAST” LISTEN TO “SECOND SPRING” Total Wife recently finished up the first leg of their U.S. tour with shows in Tennessee, New York and Ohio. This weekend, they’ll go back out on the road with Mila Culpa and next month, they’ll be supporting Los Angeles band Dummy at Nashville’s The Blue Room. For more information and to stay updated on upcoming dates, see below and follow Total Wife on Instagram at @totalwife. TOTAL WIFE LIVE 2025 SEPTEMBER  21 - The Drunken Unicorn - Atlanta, GA 22 - DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN 23 - TBA - Cincinnati, OH 24 - Government Center - Pittsburgh, PA 26 - Legacy HiFi - Washington, D.C. 27 - Purgatory - Ridgewood, NY 28 - TBA - Philadelphia, PA OCTOBER 2 - The Blue Room - Nashville, TN* * - with Dummy

TOTAL WIFE COME BACK DOWN JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS

1. in my head 2. peaches 3. internetsupermagazine 4. naoisa 5. second spring 6. still asleep 7. chloe 8. (dead b) 9. ofersi3 10. make it last

ABOUT TOTAL WIFE: Come Back Down, the new album by Nashville experimental-pop duo Total Wife, was born from the edge of sleep. When composer and producer Luna Kupper would begin to fall asleep during late-night mixing sessions, the songs would follow her into the halfway place between dream and lucidity. Like Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, she’d wake with a new perspective on the puzzle she was piecing together. “I’m a psychological mixer — I’m trying to think of how someone’s experiencing the sound, versus getting stuck in trying to make all these different tones and using all this gear to make something sound a certain way,” Kupper says. And like a spiral from waking life into dream, the songs on Come Back Down are endlessly self-referential, building whole universes from a single point. Kupper sold all of her synths to make rent before she started working on the album, and so every inorganic sound is instead built from samples of the band’s own work. A guitar on one song may be reprocessed and used as a synth on the next, while everywhere on the album vocal samples are taken from a single unreleased cover of Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars.” In tribute to this process, the album was almost named The Julia Set after the mathematical equation which feeds into itself again and again, creating beautiful fractal images. The intention was to create something complex but accessible; experimental, yet precise and without abstraction.  In her lyrics, too, lyricist and vocalist Ash Richter is as straightforward as she’s ever been. She drew on her experience of pandemic isolation to write about connection and disconnection, using her lyrics as a tool for the communication that was missing in everyday life. On the soaring, shoegazey track “peaches”, a storm that forced the cancellation of a recording session became a metaphor for emotional distance. “still asleep” chronicles Richter’s euphoria after Total Wife’s first tour, and watches it begins to curdle into paranoia. “Thank the full moon, my heart is overflowing,” she sings, before: “Is there such a thing as too happy?” The experience of isolation was prompting Richter to think back to her childhood, a time marked for her by solitude and natural play — climbing trees, making mud pies, getting lost in the woods. On tracks like “in my head” and “second spring”, she uses the imagery of nature to recall that time and forge a connection with her lonely inner child. “I feel connected with transcendentalist writing and magical realism — trying to convey things in a concrete way, but with that element of psychology and mystery,” she says.  Richter and Kupper, friends from high school, formed Total Wife in 2016, relocating from Boston to Nashville in 2020. Both are visual artists as well as musicians, which they incorporate into their work with Total Wife via layered and purposeful visuals. A DIY streak underpins everything that they do — from handling their own artwork and music videos to recording their own music, releasing tapes through their label Ivy Eat Home, and hosting house shows in the basement they’ve christened Ryman 2. In Nashville, they’ve settled into a weirdo scene living under the record industry’s floorboards, a hive of collaborative and creative energy that has made them excited to call the city home. They’ve also assembled a live band for the first time, injecting their creative process with a jolt of spontaneity and aliveness that has fed back into Come Back Down.  ABOUT JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS: Julia’s War Recordings is a community-based record label out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but serving the greater world as a whole. Founded by Douglas Dulgarian of They Are Gutting A Body of Water in 2021, we aim to provide physical media for bands that rock, for people pushing the boundaries of music and creation in the modern day.

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