{"id":43455,"date":"2025-07-19T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=43455"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:22:15","slug":"total-wife-announce-new-album-come-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=43455","title":{"rendered":"Total Wife announce new album\u00a0\u2018Come Back Down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Out this Fall on Julia\u2019s War Recordings<\/strong>

Nashville experimental-pop duo Total Wife\u2014aka Luna Kupper and Ash Richter\u2014are back with a brand new full-length album. \u2018Come Back Down\u2019 arrives September 19, 2025 via the ever-cool Julia\u2019s War Recordings (home to sonic shapeshifters and boundary pushers alike).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading the charge is the lush and fuzz-laced single Second Spring<\/a><\/em>, now out and streaming everywhere. The track pairs thick, dreamy guitars with lyrics full of quiet hope, embracing the idea that change can be soft and steady. It\u2019s got that slightly-smeared, end-of-winter shimmer\u2014and it\u2019s a fitting first taste of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHard to remember, but flowers will bloom with or without you,\u201d<\/em> the band says, referencing the same poem that inspired their earlier track Reveal Sky<\/em>. The lyrics stretch back to 2020, when Ash first scribbled them down in the haze of early pandemic spring. Years later, Luna\u2019s composition helped bring them into focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total Wife has long been a staple of the East Coast DIY circuit, and \u2018Come Back Down\u2019 follows 2023\u2019s \u2018in\/out\u2019 with even more sonic experimentation and emotional excavation. If you caught their \u20180 EP\u2019 from late last year, you\u2019ve already had a sneak peek\u2014tracks like \u201cnaoisa\u201d and \u201c(dead b)\u201d return in new, transformed forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album was made in a kind of half-dream state. Kupper, who handles most of the production, would slip into near-sleep during mixing sessions, only to wake up with new sonic ideas pulled straight from the haze. Think ambient pop via subconscious freefall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m a psychological mixer,\u201d<\/em> she explains. \u201cI care more about how someone experiences the sound than how it looks on a frequency analyzer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That dream-logic spills over into the music itself. \u2018Come Back Down\u2019 is deeply recursive\u2014songs sampling older tracks, repurposing elements, spinning them into new forms. One guitar becomes a synth on another track. A single cover of Elliott Smith\u2019s Between the Bars<\/em> became the source material for vocal textures across the whole album. The result feels like a sonic M\u00f6bius strip\u2014endlessly folding back on itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ash Richter\u2019s lyrics are the most direct they\u2019ve ever been, pulling from pandemic isolation, childhood memories, and internal spirals. On the shoegazey standout peaches<\/em>, a cancelled recording session turns into a metaphor for distance, longing, and quiet connection. Elsewhere, still asleep<\/em> captures the high of tour life morphing into something a little more tangled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThank the full moon, my heart is overflowing,\u201d<\/em> Richter sings. Then: \u201cIs there such a thing as too happy?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If \u2018Come Back Down\u2019 feels deeply personal, that\u2019s because it is. The band made it entirely themselves\u2014no outside producers, no flashy studios. Just a couple of longtime friends and artists building a sonic world from scratch. Visuals, videos, tapes\u2014it\u2019s in Total Wife, top to bottom. Their Nashville basement venue (affectionately dubbed \u201cRyman 2\u201d) continues to serve as their creative headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch them live this summer and fall\u2014they\u2019ll be hitting the road soon with full tour dates to follow. For now, they\u2019ll support LA\u2019s Dummy at The Blue Room in Nashville on October 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming Shows<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JULY<\/strong>
26 – The Duchess – Nashville, TN
OCTOBER<\/strong>
2 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN (w\/ Dummy) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Come Back Down\u2019 track list<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  1. in my head<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. peaches<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. internetsupermagazine<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. naoisa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. second spring<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. still asleep<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. chloe<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. (dead b)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. ofersi3<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. make it last<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Out September 19 via Julia\u2019s War Recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PREORDER<\/a> \u2018COME BACK DOWN<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    About Total Wife<\/strong>
    Formed in 2016 and relocated to Nashville in 2020, Total Wife are multidisciplinary artists making dream-soaked, genre-free music with a DIY heartbeat. Their world is full of intimate visuals, looping sounds, and a community-first spirit that pulses through everything they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    About Julia\u2019s War Recordings<\/strong>
    Founded by Douglas Dulgarian of They Are Gutting A Body of Water, Julia\u2019s War is a Philadelphia-based label offering physical media for bands that push sonic boundaries with intention and heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Follow Total Wife<\/strong>
    Bandcamp<\/a> | Spolicy<\/a> | YouTube <\/a>| Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Listen to Second Spring<\/em> now and get ready to \u2018Come Back Down\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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