‘Rat Saw God' by Wednesday_Band_ Review: The Asheville-based quintet’s latest album blends blue-grass and shoegaze to create a set of visceral vignettes.
that hovers like the sticky humidity-you can’t pinpoint it, but you can feel it in the air. It comes in flashes, the machine guns, crushed Four Loko cans, stock car races, Bible verse bumper stickers and awkward glances around the classroom when you get abstinence-only sex education, feel like heat lightning. It’s sacrilegious and sacred, it’s pregaming in a church parking lot before heading to the high-school football game. Wednesday, get it. They lived it.
They say you can’t choose where you’re from, but you can choose where you go and in a way, that’s exactly what Wednesday does. It’s like driving a second-hand pick-up truck while blasting Swirlies-you’re charting your own course, but there are some things you can’t shake. However, Wednesday is fearless in the face of collisions.
This lyrical precision is what makes the record shine, the fact that Hartzman can recall the exact video game, in this case,, that someone was playing when her nose started bleeding at a New Year’s Eve party she didn’t even want to be at. There’s something striking in how sentimental the details feel, how she can weave these intimate narratives out of “piss-colored bright yellow Fanta,” and a Planet Fitness parking lot that makes their country-gaze so alluring.
While this imagery carries an innate sense of emotion, there are moments on the album where Hartzman’s one-liners serve as a knock-out punch. Over sedated chords on “What’s so Funny,” she trapezes from talking about running a chainsaw until it ran out of gas to lamenting, “Nothing will ever be as vivid as the darkest time in my life.
Whether they express it through private symbolism or get straight to the point, it doesn’t matter. Wednesday is the woman who thinks “America” is “a spoiled little child” but still gives out king-sized candy bars on Halloween. They’re the kids with crew cuts and the rest stop on the way to Dollywood. They’re the exhilaration of sneaking into the neighborhood pool and only going to school three days a week.
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