Total Wife – “peaches”

With the singles from their new album Come Back Down, Total Wife have been pulling off a neat trick: The music calls back directly to Loveless in a way some shoegazers wouldn’t dare, yet it’s woozy and hallucinatory enough to unmoor listeners and undermine any allegations of pure pastiche. Luna Kupper and Ash Richter impressed me with “second spring” and “make it last,” and today’s final preview “peaches” keeps the run of quality unbroken.