Wednesday have announced their anticipated new album “Bleeds”, along with the release of second single “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On).” Wednesday recently released their great new single “Elderberry Wine,” then they played it during their TV debut on Colbert, then they announced a tour, and now they’ve finally announced the follow up to 2023’s “Rat Saw God”.
It’s called “Bleeds” and bandleader Karly Hartzman calls it “the spiritual successor to “Rat Saw God”, and I think the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” adding, “This is what Wednesday songs are supposed to sound like. We’ve devoted a lot of our lives to figuring this out—and I feel like we did.”
Produced by longtime collaborator Alex Farrar at his Asheville studio Drop of Sun, it was made with the lineup of Karly, Xandy Chelmis (lap steel, pedal steel), Alan Miller (drums), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), and Jake “MJ” Lenderman (guitar)–though MJ Lenderman is no longer touring member with the group. Following the country-leaning “Elderberry Wine,” the album announcement is accompanied by second single “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” which is more of an overtly indie rock song, powered by the band’s wall of grungy, shoegazy guitars.
“This song is inspired by a story my friend told me, from when he had to pull a body out of a creek in West Virginia,” Karly says. “Someone had drowned but they took a few days to resurface because of the current. “‘I wound up here by holdin on’ is a line from my friend Evan Gray’s poetry book: Thickets Swamped in a Fence-Coated Briars. He gave me and Jake a copy of it to read on tour once and that line stuck out to me as pure genius so I stole it and wrote the rest of the song in my own words around it.”
‘Bleeds’ on Dead Oceans The album comes out September 19th and the band’s tour begins in October,
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