Wednesday "Rat Saw God" RSD Essential Much of the album lives

Much of the album lives in contradictions – beginnings and endings

"Jocko Homo"

Nowell had been struggling with a heroin addiction

and moments of accidental brilliance

In addition to previously unrecorded covers "I Ain't Got You" and "Mother Popcorn

Wednesday "Rat Saw God" RSD Essential Much of the album livesA Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter vocalist guitarist at the helm of the project, is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller: a scholar of people and one liners. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintets new and best record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply