Wednesday, Bleeds

Don’t go looking for clues about the break-up between Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman on the new Wednesday album. The two of them are so private that they even hid the news from their bandmates until after Bleeds was done and dusted, making this the opposite narrative to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

In the lead-up to the album’s release, Hartzman said that she liked the album title because when she writes and plays music, “I feel like I’m almost in a way bloodletting and exorcising a demon”.

You can hear that on Wasp , an 86-second blast of distorted hardcore, with Hartzman a throat-shredding banshee at the microphone, screaming “My life is a spiderweb built into the doorway – when you walk in, you duck your head.”

It’s fair warning. This band can make a fine rack

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