Wednesday announce their new record, Bleeds, will on arrive September 19th via Dead Oceans. “Bleeds is the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential “Wednesday Creek Rock” album,” Karly Hartzman said, articulating satisfaction with the ways her band has sharpened its trademark sound, how they’ve refined the formula that makes them one of the most interesting rock bands of their generation. “This is what Wednesday songs are supposed to sound like,” she said. We’ve devoted a lot of our lives to figuring this out—and I feel like we did.” Their new single “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” is out today alongside a video directed by Joriel Cura. Last month the band shared lead single “Elderberry Wine.”

“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 explains. “’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 came together at Drop of Sun in Asheville and was produced by Alex Farrar, who’s been recording the band since Twin Plagues. Hartzman again brought demos to the studio, where she and her bandmates—Xandy Chelmis (lap steel, pedal steel), Alan Miller (drums), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), and Jake “MJ” Lenderman (guitar)—worked as a team to bulk-up the compositions with the exact right amounts of country truth-telling, indie-pop hooks, and noisy sludge. More than ever, the precise proportions were steered by the lyricism—not only its tone or subject matter, but also the actual sound of the words, as well as Hartzman’s masterfully subjective approach to detail selection.

Wednesday
Bleeds
Tracklist
Dead Oceans

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

TOUR DATES:
7/26-7/27 – Portland, OR @ Project Pabst
9/27 – Austin, TX @ LEVITATION Festival
10/09 – Santa Fe, NM @ Tumble Root *
10/10–12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival 
10/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
10/14 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern *
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
10/18 – Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater *
10/20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell *
10/22 – Ft. Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre *
10/23 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
11/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
11/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
11/13 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda ^
11/15 – Toronto, ON @ Concert Hall ^
11/16 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre ^
11/17 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theater ^
11/19 – Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron ^
11/20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre ^
11/21 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ^

* w/ Friendship
^ w/ Daffo

Pre-order Bleeds HERE