CBD, weed, ketamine, elderberry, pepsi-cola-these are just a few of the things that are consumed by the characters of the songs on Bleeds, while they stumble through slopes, but immediately as a quintessent scenaria: on the edge of a campfire, standing in front of a flying door, behind the steering wheel of a car.
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Wednesday singer and songwriter Karly Hartzman tells straight stories in the best country tradition: about a baseball fight in front of a bar or over corpses that are found in streams with her face. At the other end of the spectrum of content, the beautiful love song “The Way Love Goes” is found: “I know it’s notbe easy / and i know it can’t always be / that’s the way love goes.”
If the use of lap-steel guitars in the current US indie rock is no longer a taboo, this also has to do with the success of Wednesday (by the way on the lead guitar: Gen-Z-Indie-Darling MJ Lenderman). The band from North Carolina is at least as orientated to Lucinda Williams as on Pavement, and still releases several loud fuzz and even Wah-Wah pedal salvons on Bleeds (“Candy Breaath”). It’s a lot of fun.
This review first appeared around MusikExpress 10/25.