Wednesday

Blending the great fuzzy guitars of shoegaze with a faint Southern twang and lyrics fixated on the traumas of small-town life, Wednesday are an indie rock band from Asheville, North Carolina led by songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Karly Hartzman. The group's songs manage to be deeply personal while touching on doubts and anxieties that are universally recognizable, and after launching Wednesday as a solo project with 2017's I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone, Hartzman transformed it into a full five-piece band on 2021's Twin Plagues, with a fuller and more evocative sound. After signing with the noted indie Dead Oceans, Wednesday's music became bigger and more emotionally powerful on 2023's Rat Saw God.