life is too short to listen to old music
Wednesday
country: USA
genre: Alternative, Indie
styles: Lofi, Shoegaze, Rock, Country-Gaze
ABOUT THIS BAND
A Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half-memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter/vocalist/guitarist at the helm of the project is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintet’s new and best record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply empathetic. Across the album’s ten tracks Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, bassist Margo Shultz, drummer Alan Miller, & lap/pedal steel player Xandy Chelmis build a shrine to minutiae. Half-funny half-tragic dispatches from North Carolina unfurling somewhere between the wailing skuzz of Nineties shoegaze and classic country twang, Hartzman’s voice slicing through the din. Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano, past a creek that runs through the neighborhood riddled with broken glass bottles and condoms, a front yard filled with broken and rusted car parts, a lonely and dilapidated house reclaimed by kudzu. Four Lokos and rodeo clowns and a kid who burns down a corn field. The way the South hums alive all night in the summers and into fall, the sound of high school football games, the halo effect from the lights polluting the darkness. It’s not really bright enough to see in front of you, but in that stretch of inky void–somehow–you see everything.
Source [Spotify]Releases
LP
Bleeds
out on September 19, 2025
via Dead Oceans
Single
Elderberry Wine
out on May 21, 2025
via Dead Oceans
LP
Rat Saw God
out on April 07, 2023
via Dead Oceans
Single
TV in the Gas Pump
out on March 22, 2023
via Dead Oceans
Single
Bath County
out on February 23, 2023
via Dead Oceans
Single
Chosen to Deserve
out on January 18, 2023
via Dead Oceans
LP
Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up
out on March 11, 2022
via Orindal Records
![She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin Double) [Gary Stewart]](/Covers/image-thumb__26406__cover/6215b2a633559.jpg)
Single
She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin Double) [Gary Stewart]
out on February 23, 2022
via Orindal Records
LP
Twin Plagues
out on August 13, 2021
via Orindal Records
Single
How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do
out on July 21, 2021
via Orindal Records
Single
One More Last One
out on July 07, 2021
via Orindal Records
Single
Cody's Only
out on June 09, 2021
via Orindal Records
Single
Handsome Man
out on May 19, 2021
via Orindal Records
Videos
Townies (Official Video)
September 11, 2025
Elderberry Wine
May 21, 2025
Bath County (Official Video)
February 23, 2023
Chosen to Deserve (Official Video)
January 18, 2023
Bull Believer (Official Video)
September 08, 2022
"How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do"
July 20, 2021
"One More Last One"
July 07, 2021
"Handsome Man"
May 19, 2021
Concerts
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