Noisy indie-rockers Wednesday have introduced their new album, Bleeds. The follow-up to 2023’s Rat Saw God arrives September 19 by way of Dead Oceans. The Asheville, North Carolina, band has additionally shared the brand new tune “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)” and an accompanying music video by Joriel Cura. Watch it beneath.
“This tune is impressed by a narrative my buddy instructed me, from when he needed to pull a physique out of a creek in West Virginia. Somebody had drowned however they took a number of days to resurface due to the present,” Wednesday chief Karly Hartzman defined in a press launch. “‘I wound up right here by holdin on’ is a line from my buddy Evan Grey’s poetry guide: Thickets Swamped in a Fence-Coated Briars. He gave me and Jake [Lenderman] a replica of it to learn on tour as soon as, and that line caught out to me as pure genius, so I stole it and wrote the remainder of the tune in my very own phrases round it.”
Spanning 12 songs, together with the beforehand launched “Elderberry Wine,” Bleeds was recorded at Drop of Sun in Asheville. It was there that the Southern rock five-piece—singer-guitarist Karly Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, lap metal and pedal metal participant Xandy Chelmis, bassist and pianist Ethan Baechtold, and drummer Alan Miller—reunited with Rat Noticed God and Twin Plagues producer Alex Farrar.
Shortly after releasing their upcoming album, Wednesday will embark on a North American tour. Help alongside that run consists of Friendship, on the West Coast leg, and Daffo, on the East Coast. Lenderman lately revealed that, whereas he stays a member of Wednesday within the recording studio, he’ll not tour with the band. His most up-to-date solo album, Manning Fireworks, got here out final autumn.
Wednesday lately made their television debut, performing “Elderberry Wine” on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. It adopted Lenderman and Hartzman’s 2024 efficiency of Lenderman’s “Wristwatch” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Revisit the interview “Wednesday’s Curdled Beauty” and examine Rat Noticed God at No. 32 in “The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far.”
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Bleeds:
01 Actuality TV Argument Bleeds
02 Townies
03 Wound Up Right here (By Holdin On)
04 Elderberry Wine
05 Phish Pepsi
06 Sweet Breath
07 The Means Love Goes
08 Choose Up That Knife
09 Wasp
10 Bitter On a regular basis
11 Carolina Homicide Suicide
12 Gary’s II
