Music
Wednesday
Stunning alt-country songs about wasp stings, deceased landlords, and smoking weed from Pepsi cans.
How deceptive was the summery indie hit 'Elderberry Wine'? As a 'regular' alt-country band, Wednesday is already phenomenal, but the group from Asheville, North Carolina likes to unleash a wave of grunge onto their audience every now and then – in 'Pick Up That Knife' for instance, or two-thirds into 'Bull Believer'. They feel like night terrors. Frontwoman Karly Hartzman is indeed a horror raconteur in the style of Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood. She sings about killings that are often metaphors but sometimes painfully real – local news merged with personal grief and misery. Even a song about a truck that is too tall crashing into an overpass can be heartbreaking.
