Wednesday - "Elderberry Wine"
Photo by Graham Tolbert Rat Saw God was my #3 album of 2023, so I'm clearly going to be thrilled to hear new music from Wednesday. The North Carolina band's latest is "Elderberry Wine," which leans more into the Americana side of their indie rock meets Americana sound. There are a lot of bands combining those two genres these days, but no one quite does it as well as Wednesday. They seem to be able to move between and blur the two genres adeptly, and even an almost purely Americana song of theirs puts just enough indie rock fuzz to it to keep things interesting. "Elderberry Wine" also features some of the finest vocals we've heard from singer Karly Hartzman to date. As of right now this is a standalone single, but hopefully we'll be hearing more from Wednesday in the near future. Karly Hartzman says of the band's latest single: “‘Elderberry Wine’ is about the potential for sweet things in life (love, family, success) to become poison if not prepa...