Wednesday announce new album ‘Bleeds,’ share “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)”

Wednesday recently released their great new single “Elderberry Wine,” then they played it during their TV debut on Colbert, then they announced a fall tour, and now they’ve finally announced the followup to 2023’s Rat Saw God. It’s called Bleeds and bandleader Karly Hartzman calls it “the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” adding, “This is what Wednesday songs are supposed to sound like. We’ve devoted a lot of our lives to figuring this out—and I feel like we did.” Pre-order it on eco mix vinyl in the BV shop.

Produced by longtime collaborator Alex Farrar at his Asheville studio Drop of Sun, it was made with the lineup of Karly, Xandy Chelmis (lap steel, pedal steel), Alan Miller (drums), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), and Jake “MJ” Lenderman (guitar)–though MJ Lenderman is no longer touring with the group. Following the country-leaning “Elderberry Wine,” the album announcement is accompanied by second single “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” which is more of an overtly indie rock song, powered by the band’s wall of grungy, shoegazy guitars.

“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,” Karly says. “Someone had drowned but they took a few days to resurface because of the current. “‘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.” Listen and watch the Joriel Cura-directed video below. You can find the album art and single art (both created by Kamila Mlynarczyk) and the tracklist below as well too.

The album comes out September 19 via Dead Oceans, and the band’s tour begins in October, with Friendship on the West Coast dates and Daffo on the East Coast/Midwest dates. That includes two NYC shows (November 11 & 12 at Brooklyn Steel). All dates are listed below.

Tracklist
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

Wednesday — 2025 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