Wednesday have shared the fourth and final single from their forthcoming album Bleeds. Watch the video for “Bitter Everyday,” shot by Ben Turok, below.
“‘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 explained in a press statement. “She asked them if she could sing them a song she had written, she had an incredible voice. They recorded a voice note of it and showed it to me the next morning when I woke up. I knew which lady it was, she was a houseless person who walked around the downtown area a lot.”
Hartzman continued: “Weeks later, I was walking home from work and I saw a photo of her on a telephone pole. It was an old mug shot of her, and she was done up in juggalo makeup. The description on the paper said she was wanted for murder. The chorus is an homage to Iris DeMent‘s song ‘Easy’s Gettin’ Harder Everyday.’”
Bleeds arrives September 19 via Dead Oceans. The follow-up to 2023’s Rat Saw God features the singles “Elderberry Wine,” “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),” and “Pick Up That Knife.” In October, Wednesday will hit the road—sans MJ Lenderman, who recently shared he’d no longer be touring with the band—for a run of North American tour dates.
Revisit our track review of “Pick Up That Knife” and read about Wednesday’s “Chosen to Deserve” at No. 14 on “The 100 Best Songs of the 2020s So Far.”
