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The kids aren't all right, but they've never sounded better. On the fifth album from Asheville, North Carolina, band Wednesday, the song everybody will be talking about—for a long time—is "Bull Believer'': eight and a half bloody-raw minutes of frontwoman Karly Hartzman drawing parallels between a bull being gored for sport and herself being ignored by someone who is too busy playing Mortal Kombat to notice she's bleeding. Set to a broken, noisy Sonic Youth-esque melody, it fades into haunted shoegaze until, just before the five-minute mark, Hartzman begins a punch-drunk chant of "Finish him," over and over before it becomes pure desperation, the two words dragged out interminably. It's wild and messy and glorious, a musical car crash as if directed by David Cronenberg. (It's also said to be based on an episode of the country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones that spans from bullfighting to the confounding life of George Jones.) Stomping as hard as contemporaries Cherry Glazerr and Bully, Wednesday also doesn't shy away from the country, mountain and Americana musical influences that are inescapable where they come from. "Formula One" is a woozy, Benadryl-drunk country ballad, cracked and beautiful, and the excellent "Chosen to Deserve" borrows the deep-fried Southern rock of Drive-By Truckers, lap steel (courtesy of Xandy Chelmis) and all. "I used to drink 'til I threw up on weeknights at my parents' house .../ I was out late, sneakin' into the neighborhood pool/ Then I woke up early and taught at the Sunday school … I went to school about three days out of the week/ Watered down all the liquor/ And then pissed outside in the street," Hartzman sings, unspooling a casual tragedy. "A lot of the stories I'm telling are about when I was doing more drugs and partying," she's said of these songs. "That was a response to some stressful financial situations my parents were in, some other life stuff like grief and loss—it was everything at once, and I felt completely unequipped to handle it." "Every daughter of God/ Has a little bad luck sometimes," she reminds on "Bath County," which applies a thick anti-gloss of '90s slacker wooziness for grand effect. "Quarry," meanwhile, is like The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" run through a grunge-pop filter, wave after wave of Jake Lenderman's crashing guitar setting up a feral last verse about watching cops raid the neighbors' home and finding guns and cocaine in the drywall. © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz
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Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
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Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher - Alex Farrar, Producer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher
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Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
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Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Covertly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Alan Miller, AssociatedPerformer - Wednesday, MainArtist - Alex Farrar, Producer - Karly Hartzman, AssociatedPerformer - Margo Schultz, AssociatedPerformer - Xandy Chelmis, AssociatedPerformer - MJ Lenderman, AssociatedPerformer - Hiss Lovers Publishing, MusicPublisher - Hand Stuff Publishing, MusicPublisher - Cage Match Publishing, MusicPublisher - Empty Unused Publishing, MusicPublisher - CrabBucket Enterprises, MusicPublisher - Covertly Canadian Publishing/Secretly Canadian Publishing, MusicPublisher
2023 Dead Oceans 2023 Dead Oceans
Album Description
The kids aren't all right, but they've never sounded better. On the fifth album from Asheville, North Carolina, band Wednesday, the song everybody will be talking about—for a long time—is "Bull Believer'': eight and a half bloody-raw minutes of frontwoman Karly Hartzman drawing parallels between a bull being gored for sport and herself being ignored by someone who is too busy playing Mortal Kombat to notice she's bleeding. Set to a broken, noisy Sonic Youth-esque melody, it fades into haunted shoegaze until, just before the five-minute mark, Hartzman begins a punch-drunk chant of "Finish him," over and over before it becomes pure desperation, the two words dragged out interminably. It's wild and messy and glorious, a musical car crash as if directed by David Cronenberg. (It's also said to be based on an episode of the country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones that spans from bullfighting to the confounding life of George Jones.) Stomping as hard as contemporaries Cherry Glazerr and Bully, Wednesday also doesn't shy away from the country, mountain and Americana musical influences that are inescapable where they come from. "Formula One" is a woozy, Benadryl-drunk country ballad, cracked and beautiful, and the excellent "Chosen to Deserve" borrows the deep-fried Southern rock of Drive-By Truckers, lap steel (courtesy of Xandy Chelmis) and all. "I used to drink 'til I threw up on weeknights at my parents' house .../ I was out late, sneakin' into the neighborhood pool/ Then I woke up early and taught at the Sunday school … I went to school about three days out of the week/ Watered down all the liquor/ And then pissed outside in the street," Hartzman sings, unspooling a casual tragedy. "A lot of the stories I'm telling are about when I was doing more drugs and partying," she's said of these songs. "That was a response to some stressful financial situations my parents were in, some other life stuff like grief and loss—it was everything at once, and I felt completely unequipped to handle it." "Every daughter of God/ Has a little bad luck sometimes," she reminds on "Bath County," which applies a thick anti-gloss of '90s slacker wooziness for grand effect. "Quarry," meanwhile, is like The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" run through a grunge-pop filter, wave after wave of Jake Lenderman's crashing guitar setting up a feral last verse about watching cops raid the neighbors' home and finding guns and cocaine in the drywall. © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:03
- Main artists: Wednesday
- Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
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