Wednesday - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone - VINYL LP

I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone is Wednesday's second full-length album & first as a full band. The Asheville, NC quintet (guitarist/vocalist Karly Hartzman, lead guitarist Daniel Gorham, pedal steelguitarist Xandy Chelmis, bassist Margo Schultz & drummer Alan Miller)maximizes the dark dissonance of a three guitar attack to highlight theemotionality of Hartzman's bell-clear vocals & wisps of half-recalledmemories & literary references that make up her lyrics. I Was Tryingto Describe You to Someone's eight songs meld elements of shoegaze,grunge, indie pop & southern American culture into a uniquely personalstyle of modern rock music that resonates with power & tenderness.The ever-darkening & deepening of Wednesday's' sound on I WasTrying to Describe You to Someone owes a debt of influence to TheSwirlies, Arthur Russell, Red House Painters, Tenniscoats, Ana Roxanne,Acetone, & their continued collaboration with MJ Lenderman (wholends backing vocals to the songs InchBillboardInch & InchNovemberInch). I WasTrying to Describe You to Someone was recorded at Hartzman's homewith engineering assistance from her roommate Colin Miller. The depth& clarity of the recordings balance the distorted volume of Wednesday'slive performances with the intimacy of Hartzman's voice. Her wordshold the center of the chaos, unobscured by the power of the band.Hartzman describes her lyrics as Inchattempts to access old personalmemories & do them justice through prose, with inspiration from thewritings of Richard Brautigan, Flannery O'Connor, David Berman & TomRobbins, & movies like Steel Magnolias.Inch Album Tracks 1. Fate Is 2. Billboard 3. Love Has No Pride (Condemned) 4. Underneath 5. November 6. Maura 7. Coyote 8. Revenge of the Lawn

In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that I'm not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately more treacherous for me when I had to witness the very real toll that time, modern anxieties, isolation, and boredom were taking on me. It was easier, it seemed, to spiral into a not-so-distant glorious past, to use memory as a tool of both excitement and healing. But, speaking of excitement, I like to stumble towards a band with no agenda, no purpose, uncovering sound almost on accident. This is how I first heard Wednesday. The band came to me and I don't remember how, or why. They simply arrived, as if we'd been traveling toward each other our whole lives. I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone soaked into my summer of 2020, and in sound, in spirit, in central concerns and the execution of them, ittook me back to an era before the current era, which I'd needed at the time. The past can feel less hellish than the present if we are, sometimes, not fully honest with ourselves.There is the trick of nostalgia that I spend a lot of time playing with in my own writing, and somewhat tormented by in my own living. The very real idea that nostalgia is both a useful tool and also a weapon if it isn't paired with something that approaches a type of rigorous honesty.But if I may go back to all of these ideas of nostalgia and our old, tricky, past selves that are, indeed, a part of the house of bricks that make up our present self, what I also hope you, listener, might adore about this album is the exact moment at the start of InchThe Burned Down Dairy QueenInch when Karly sings I was hiding in a room in my mind / and I made me take a look at myself. Because if you, like

On Eco Mix Color Vinyl... Can a self-portrait be a collage? Can empathy be autobiographical? What's the point of living if we're not trying to understand all the horror and humor that surrounds everything? These are a few of the questions lurking under the bleachers of Wednesday's new album Bleeds, an intoxicating collection of narrative-heavy Southern rock that-like many of the most arresting passages from the North Carolina band's highlight reel so far-thoughtfully explores the vivid link between curiosity and confession. Bleeds is not only the best Wednesday record-it's also the most Wednesday record, a patchwork-style triumph of literary allusions and outlaw grit, of place-based poetry and hair-raising noise. Karly Hartzman-founder, frontwoman, and primary lyricist-credits Wednesday's tightened grasp on their own identity to time spent collaborating on previous albums, plus a tour schedule that's been both rewarding and relentless. InchBleeds is the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential 'Wednesday Creek Rock' album,Inch Hartzman said, articulating satisfaction with the ways her band has sharpened it's trademark sound, how they've refined the formula that makes them one of the most interesting rock bands of their generation. InchThis is what Wednesday songs are supposed to sound like,Inch she said. InchWe've devoted a lot of our lives to figuring this out-and I feel like we did.Inch Just like Rat Saw God, one of the defining rock & roll records of the 2020s so far, 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 InchM.J.Inch Lenderman (guitar)-worked as a team to bulk-up the compositi