Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Vinyl)

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: a scholar of people and one-liners.

Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintets new and best record, is autobiographical and above all, deeply empathetic.

Across the albums ten tracks Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, bassist Margo Shultz, drummer Alan Miller, and 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, that distorted lap steel and Hartzmans voice slicing through the din.

Available on limited purple coloured vinyl.

Tracklist:
01. Hot Rotten Grass Smell
02. Bull Believer
03. Got Shocked
04. Formula One
05. Chosen to Deserve
06. Bath County
07. Quarry
08. Turkey Vultures
09. Whats So Funny
10. TV in the Gas Pump