Wednesday have shared their latest Bleeds single, ‘Bitter Everyday’, alongside a music video by Ben Turok shot in Lake Santeelah in Western North Carolina. It’s stormy and electric until the very last moments, where Karly Hartzman finally sings, “The sweetest parts of life keep getting bitter every day,” and it cuts like a knife. Check it out 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”, Hartzman explained in a 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. 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 is slated to arrive on September 17 via Dead Oceans. ‘Elderberry Wine’, ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’, and ‘Pick Up That Knife’.
