After several sold-out tape runs, Total Wife’s come back down is out now on vinyl & CD! Make plans to join us in the record shop on Saturday, October 17th at 4:30 PM (aka BEER:30!) to celebrate with a free & all ages in-store performance. We’re pumped to host the band at Grimey’s and hope you’ll be here for the occasion. You can read more about Total Wife’s upcoming Grimey’s event on our site here.

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. 

Total Wife’s come back down is available to order for event pickup on Electric Blue colored vinyl LP, CD & cassette. Preorders may be claimed at Grimey’s on Saturday, October 17th, the day of our event with Total Wife.

Preorders are limited to a total of two total (2) per customer / household. All who place preorders in advance will receive an email with preorder pickup and event details on or by the day before our Total Wife event.

*Preorders for store pickup will be held for three months after release date. Please pick up your come back down , preorder no later than January 17th.