{"product_id":"come-back-down-electric-blue-vinyl-lp","title":"come back down: Electric Blue Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLabel: Julia's War Recordings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease Date: 9th October\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTotal Wife's 'come back down' is a shoegaze, experimental, dream pop and indie record doing what it should do and that's making you feel comfortingly disorientated. It finds itself held in that fleeting zone of lucid dreams and awakeness as drum machines flitter and burst, reverb stretches and mutates and vocals feel like a soothing trip companion. Want me to say it? It's euphoric, baby.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe height=\"150\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/dead-b\/1822343547?i=1822343562\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCome 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\u003cbr\u003eexperiencing 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\u003cbr\u003eown 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\u003cbr\u003eprecise 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”\u003cbr\u003echronicles Richter’s euphoria after Total Wife’s first tour, and watches it begin to curdle into paranoia. “Thank the full moon, my heart is overflowing,” she\u003cbr\u003esings, 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\u003cbr\u003esolitude 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\u003cbr\u003eof 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\u003cbr\u003econvey things in a concrete way, but with that element of psychology and mystery,” she says. ??Richter and Kupper, friends from high school, formed Total\u003cbr\u003eWife 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\u003cbr\u003elayered and purposeful visuals. A DIY streak underpins everything that they do — from handling their own artwork and music videos to recording their own\u003cbr\u003emusic, 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\u003cbr\u003einto 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.\u003cbr\u003eThey also assembled a live band for the first time shortly after moving to Nashville, consisting of Ryan Bigelow, Sean Booz and Billy Campbell — injecting their\u003cbr\u003ecreative process with a jolt of spontaneity and aliveness that has fed back into Come Back Down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Total Wife","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54049116619046,"sku":"JWR091LP-C1","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0505\/7734\/2621\/files\/IMG_4364.jpg?v=1791536430","url":"https:\/\/www.limitedadditionrecords.com\/en-us\/products\/come-back-down-electric-blue-vinyl-lp","provider":"Limited Addition Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}