Following the release of “Elderberry Wine” last month, Wednesday have announced their new album, Bleeds, out Sept. 19 via Dead Oceans. Recorded in their hometown of Asheville, vocalist Karly Hartzman calls it “the spiritual successor” to 2023’s Rat Saw God and the “quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album.” They’ve also shared the ripping single “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)” and a video directed by Joriel Cura (Jane Remover, Glixen).
“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. Someone had drowned, but they took a few days to resurface because of the current,” Hartzman says. “‘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.”
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Wednesday will hit the road for a headlining tour throughout October and November. Support includes Friendship on the West Coast and Daffo on the East Coast. As previously reported, guitarist MJ Lenderman will no longer tour with the band, though he’ll continue to work on their recorded music (and played with them during their Colbert debut in May).
See the video for “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” plus the Bleeds tracklist and 2025 tour dates, below.
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Wednesday – Bleeds tracklist
- “Reality TV Argument Bleeds”
- “Townies”
- “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)”
- “Elderberry Wine”
- “Phish Pepsi”
- “Candy Breath”
- “The Way Love Goes”
- “Pick Up That Knife”
- “Wasp”
- “Bitter Everyday”
- “Carolina Murder Suicide”
- “Gary’s II”
