Over the past decade, the experimental Nashville-based duo Total Wife — Luna Kupper and Ash Richter — have firmly cemented as fixtures of both the Nashville and East Coast DIY scenes.
The duo’s fifth album, Come Back Down is slated for a September 25, 2025 release through Julia’s War Recordings. Come Back Down is the follow-up to 2023’s in/out and builds upon their varied and rich catalog, while featuring the previously released 0 EP tracks “naoisa,” and “(dead b).”
Last month, I wrote about album single “second spring,” a woozy track that evokes both the hope of new beginnings and the unease of what those new beginnings will actually mean for you and your life. “make it last,” Come Back Down‘s latest single, the shoegazer-like “make it last” features layers of churning and wheezing guitars and thunderous drumming serving as a lush yet subtly uneasy bed for Ash Richter’s yearning delivery.
“‘make it last’ started as kind of a horny song,” Total Wife’s Ash Richter explains. “I was experimenting with lyric writing that felt a little less serious or sappy, but the more I worked through it, the more it kind of ended up as a love song to the road, or like an ode to time passing veiled by the excitement of living. When overwhelming euphoria removes you from your surroundings and sense of time.”
The band announced additional tour dates to support the forthcoming album, including an August 30. 2025 stop at Night Club 101. Check out the rest of the tour dates below.
TOTAL WIFE LIVE 2025
AUGUST
30 – Night Club 101 – New York, NY
SEPTEMBER
21 – The Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA
22 – DRKMTTR – Nashville, TN
OCTOBER
2 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN
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