Wednesday Announce New Album ‘Bleeds’, Share New Single ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’
‘Elderberry Wine’, Wednesday‘s first new music since 2023’s Rat Saw God, was hailed as one of the band’s gentlest, prettiest songs to date. Now, on another Wednesday Wednesday, we know they have a new album on the way, and that it doesn’t all sound so sweet. Bleeds is set for release on September 19 via Dead Oceans, and today’s announcement comes with the release of the much stormier new single ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’. It arrives alongside a music video by Joriel Cura. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover art (by Kamila Mlynarczyk) and tracklist.
“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,” frontwoman Karly Hartzman explained in a press release. “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.”
Wednesday once again tracked the new album at Drop of Sun in Asheville with producer Alex Farrar, a collaborator of the band since 2021’s Twin Plagues. Hartzman brought demos to the studio, where she fleshed them out with her bandmates – Xandy Chelmis (lap steel, pedal steel), Alan Miller (drums), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), and Jake “MJ” Lenderman (guitar). “Bleeds is the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” Hartzman said, 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.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Wednesday.
Bleeds Cover Artwork:
Bleeds Tracklist:
1. Reality TV Argument Bleeds
2. Townies
3. Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)
4. Elderberry Wine
5. Phish Pepsi
6. Candy Breath
7. The Way Love Goes
8. Pick Up That Knife
9. Wasp
10. Bitter Everyday
11. Carolina Murder Suicide
12. Gary’s II
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