North Carolina indie-country outfit Wednesday have announced their highly anticipated new album, Bleeds, set for release on September 19 via Dead Oceans. The record follows 2023’s Rat Saw God, with frontwoman Karly Hartzman calling it a “spiritual successor” to that LP.

In addition, the band have shared a music video for a new single, “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” directed by Joriel Cura. Watch it below:

Speaking on the upcoming album, Hartzman explains, “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.”

Of the new song itself, Hartzman goes on:

"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. 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."

The band also recently announced a tour, following the release of the album’s lead single, “Elderberry Wine.”

Bleeds is out September 19. Preorder here. Full 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 tour dates:

07/26 Portland, OR @ Project Pabst
07/27 Portland, OR @ Project Pabst
09/27 Austin, TX @ LEVITATION Festival
10/09 Santa Fe, NM @ Tumble Root *
10/10 Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival
10/11 Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival
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

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