Wednesday Releases Bitter Everyday, Final Bleeds Single Sept 19

Wednesday has released Bitter Everyday, the fourth and final single from their forthcoming Bleeds, a record due to arrive on September 19 through Dead Oceans. The band also unveiled a Ben Turok–directed video shot at Lake Santeelah in Western North Carolina, continuing a promotional rollout that has showcased a stark, narrative-driven approach to their Southern-rock-inflected sound. Bitter Everyday follows a string of precursors including Elderberry Wine, Wound Up Here By Holdin On, and Pick Up That Knife, and marks the closing lead-up to Bleeds, the group’s first full album since Rat Saw God in 2023.

The song’s origin story is central to its meaning. “Bitter Everyday is a song formed around my desperate desire to tell the story about how in 2019 this lady came up on our porch at like 3 in the morning when Jake and our friend Andrew were out there drinking and playing guitar,” bandleader Karly Hartzman explains. “She asked them if she could sing them a song she had written, she had an incredible voice.” Hartzman continues, noting that a voice note of the encounter was shared the next morning, and that she understood exactly who the woman was, a houseless figure who wandered the...