Wednesday have launched “Elderberry Wine,” their first new music since 2023, together with a Spencer Kelly-directed music video. Stream it beneath.
A breezy, quasi-country observe pushed by Karly Hartzman’s delicate vocals, “Elderberry Wine” includes a refrain backed by guitarist MJ Lenderman wherein they sing: “And the pink boiled eggs keep afloat within the brine/ ‘Trigger even the most effective champagne tastes like elderberry wine.”
In an announcement, Hartzman revealed the music was impressed by a narrative involving the plant’s equal advantages and penalties. “‘Elderberry Wine’ is concerning the potential for candy issues in life (love, household, success) to grow to be poison if not ready for and attended to appropriately,” she defined. “One time… my sister consumed them uncooked and it instantly induced vomiting. So ‘Elderberry Wine’ is in the end a love music about creating simply the precise atmosphere for achievement. There’s a fragile stability that must be created, particularly in love, for 2 lives to intersect with out poisoning one another.”
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The accompanying video was shot at The Bench, the second oldest bar in Greensboro, NC. Director Spencer Kelly defined that their purpose was to seize the institution’s pure ambiance. “On any given day, you’ll discover individuals there from all walks of life swapping tales beneath the music blasting overhead,” he mentioned. “We got here in with some particular scripted scenes, however we needed to seize the bar as authentically as attainable — so everybody you see within the video is a daily, together with Karly’s dad, George. This video is a little bit of a love letter to locations like this, the place the sense of group runs deep and the beers are at all times chilly.”
Tonight (Could twenty first), the band will carry out the observe throughout their late night time tv debut on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert. The episode will air at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.
Wednesday even have two upcoming competition slots: Portland’s Challenge Pabst (get tickets right here) and Las Vegas’ Greatest Associates Ceaselessly (get tickets right here).
The group’s most up-to-date album, Rat Noticed God, was named by Consequence because the second finest album of 2023. The next yr, Wednesday contributed to a observe on Cardinals on the Window, a profit album that raised donations for these displaced by Hurricane Helene.
Revisit Jonah Krueger’s function “Pedal Metal Is Weeping Its Approach Out of Nation and into the Mainstream,” which included an interview with Wednesday’s metal participant, Xandy Chelmis.