Wednesday - Rat Saw God - Plum Color Vinyl Record

Wednesday Rat Saw God On limited edition Plum color vinyl.

A Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter/vocalist/guitarist, is a story collector and storyteller: a scholar of people and one-liners. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintet's best record, is autobiographical and empathetic. Across ten tracks, Hartzman, Lenderman, Shultz, Miller, and Chelmis build a shrine to minutiae—half-funny, half-tragic moments from North Carolina, blending Nineties shoegaze and country twang, with Hartzman's voice slicing through. It’s about riding a bike in Greensboro listening to My Bloody Valentine on an iPod Nano, past a creek with broken glass, rusted car parts, and a house reclaimed by kudzu. It features Four Lokos, rodeo clowns, kids burning down a field, roadside monuments, church marquees, and family heirlooms. The South hums all summer into fall, high school football the soundtrack, lights polluting darkness, revealing everything in that inky void. The songs depict everyday realities—blurry, chaotic, true to Hartzman's belief that everyone’s story is worth telling because people are fascinating. Ultimately, the album and any Wednesday song are about tiny moments that add up into a person, a song, an album—about how we fall, break hearts, and make others feel seen.