Come Back Down by Total Wife

Come Back Down by Total Wife

'Come Back Down' by Total Wife

Some experiments in pop music are accidental, such as the brief squall of guitar feedback that opens the Beatles’ 1964 single “I Feel Fine.” Some experiments are more deliberate, such as the construction, from fragments of Total Wife’s own past, the Nashville-based duo’s latest LP, Come Back Down .

The circumstances of the experiment were economic: Luna Kupper sold her synthesizers to pay the rent before she and her artistic partner, primary singer and lyricist Ash Richter, began creating this music. To get around the lack of equipment, Kupper and Richter sampled their previous work to reuse, retool, and reconfigure it.

Because of that process, Come Back Down carries background hiss, as if parts of a master tape have be