Wednesday are again with one other new track from Bleeds, their upcoming sixth studio album. “Pick Up That Knife” comes with a grainy, camcorder-shot music video of a pair making out within the woods and different buddies gorging themselves on watermelon, as directed by Sara Melosh. Watch it beneath.
“‘Decide Up That Knife’ is a track that revolves round emotions of helplessness, when each minor inconvenience hurts double trigger you are near giving up,” singer-guitarist Karly Hartzman mentioned of the brand new track. “It’s additionally about when our pedal metal participant Xandy threw up within the moshpit in the course of the Loss of life Grips set at Primavera Sound in 2023.”
“Decide Up That Knife” is the third single Wednesday have shared from Bleeds to date, following “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)” and “Elderberry Wine.” The follow-up to 2023’s Rat Saw God arrives September 19 by way of Dead Oceans and was produced by Alex Farrar, who additionally labored with the twangy rock five-piece—Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, lap metal and pedal metal participant Xandy Chelmis, bassist and pianist Ethan Baechtold, and drummer Alan Miller—on each Rat Noticed God and Twin Plagues.
Shortly after releasing their upcoming album, Wednesday will embark on a North American tour with help from Daffo and Friendship. (Lenderman is not going to be performing with the band on that route, nevertheless, as he not too long ago revealed that whereas he’s nonetheless a member of Wednesday within the recording studio, he’s not becoming a member of them on the street.) Get a peek at what to anticipate from their reside renditions with their current television debut performing “Elderberry Wine” on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.
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.”
