Wednesday Announce New Album, Share Video For New Single “Wound Up Right here (By Holdin On)”
Bleeds Due Out September 19 by way of Useless Oceans
Jun 18, 2025
Images by Graham Tolbert
Wednesday have introduced their new album, Bleeds, and shared a video for its second single, “Wound Up Right here (By Holdin On).” Bleeds is due out September nineteenth by way of Useless Oceans. Try the video and album particulars under.
“Wound Up Right here (By Holdin On)” follows the album’s first single, “Elderberry Wine,” which they carried out on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, making their TV debut. “Elderberry Wine” was additionally certainly one of our Songs of the Week. Bleeds follows the band’s critically acclaimed Rat Noticed God in 2023.
The North Carolina-based band options Xandy Chelmis (lap metal, pedal metal), Alan Miller (drums), Ethan Baechtold (bass, piano), Jake “MJ” Lenderman (guitar), and frontwoman Karly Hartzman.
“This music is impressed by a narrative my pal instructed me, from when he needed to pull a physique out of a creek in West Virginia,” says Hartzman in regards to the new music in a press launch. “Somebody had drowned however they took just a few days to resurface due to the present. ‘I wound up right here by holdin on’ is a line from my pal Evan Grey’s poetry e book: Thickets Swamped in a Fence-Coated Briars. He gave me and Jake a duplicate of it to learn on tour as soon as and that line caught out to me as pure genius so I stole it and wrote the remainder of the music in my very own phrases round it.”
Hartzman additionally spoke on the brand new album. “Bleeds is the religious successor to Rat Noticed God, and I believe the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album. That is what Wednesday songs are alleged to sound like. We’ve devoted a number of our lives to figuring this out—and I really feel like we did.”
Wednesday shall be on tour in help of Bleeds this fall, starting in late September. The tour is break up between a west coast leg aided by Friendship and an east coast run with help from Daffo.
Learn our 2022 interview with Wednesday.
Learn our assessment of Rat Noticed God.
Bleeds Tracklist:
1. Actuality TV Argument Bleeds
2. Townies
3. Wound Up Right here (By Holdin On)
4. Elderberry Wine
5. Phish Pepsi
6. Sweet Breath
7. The Means Love Goes
8. Choose Up That Knife
9. Wasp
10. Bitter On a regular basis
11. Carolina Homicide Suicide
12. Gary’s II
Wednesday Tour Dates:
7/26-7/27 – Portland, OR @ Challenge Pabst
9/27 – Austin, TX @ LEVITATION Competition
10/09 – Santa Fe, NM @ Tumble Root *
10/10–12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Greatest Buddies Without end Competition
10/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
10/14 – Solana Seashore, CA @ Stomach Up Tavern *
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
10/18 – Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater *
10/20 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Soundwell *
10/22 – Ft. Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre *
10/23 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Switch ^
11/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Metal ^
11/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Metal ^
11/13 – Montreal, QC @ Membership Soda ^
11/15 – Toronto, ON @ Live performance Corridor ^
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 Membership ^
* w/ Friendship
^ w/ Daffo