I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone: Vinyl LP

I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone is Wednesdays second full-length album & first as a full band. The Asheville, NC quintet (guitarist/ vocalist Karly Hartzman, lead guitarist Daniel Gorham, pedal steel guitarist Xandy Chelmis, bassist Margo Schultz & drummer Alan Miller) maximizes the dark dissonance of a three guitar attack to highlight the emotionality of Hartzmans bell-clear vocals & wisps of half-recalled memories & literary references that make up her lyrics. I Was Trying to Describe You to Someones eight songs meld elements of shoegaze, grunge, indie pop & southern American culture into a uniquely personal style of modern rock music that resonates with power & tenderness.

The ever-darkening & deepening of Wednesdays sound on I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone owes a debt of influence to The Swirlies, Arthur Russell, Red House Painters, Tenniscoats, Ana Roxanne, Acetone, & their continued collaboration with MJ Lenderman (who lends backing vocals to the songs Billboard & November). I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone was recorded at Hartzmans home with engineering assistance from her roommate Colin Miller. The depth & clarity of the recordings balance the distorted volume of Wednesdays live performances with the intimacy of Hartzmans voice. Her words hold the center of the chaos, unobscured by the power of the band.

Hartzman describes her lyrics as attempts to access old personal memories & do them justice through prose, with inspiration from the writings of Richard Brautigan, Flannery OConnor, David Berman & Tom Robbins, & movies like Steel Magnolias.