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Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano, past a creek that runs through the neighborhood riddled with broken glass bottles and condoms, a front yard filled with broken and rusted car parts, a lonely and dilapidated house reclaimed by kudzu. Four Lokos and rodeo clowns and a kid who burns down a corn field. Roadside monuments, church marquees, poppers and vodka in a plastic water bottle, the shit you get away with at Jewish summer camp, strange sentimental family heirlooms at the thrift stores. The way the South hums alive all night in the summers and into fall, the sound of high school football games, the halo effect from the lights polluting the darkness. It's not really bright enough to see in front of you, but in that stretch of inky void - somehow - you see everything. Rat Saw God was written in the months immediately following Twin Plagues' completion, and recorded in a week at Asheville's Drop of Sun studio. While Twin Plagues was a breakthrough release critically for Wednesday, it was also a creative and personal breakthrough for Hartzman. The lauded record charts feeling really fucked up, trauma, dropping acid. It had Hartzman thinking about the listener, about her mom hearing those songs, about how it feels to really spill your guts. And in the end, it felt okay. "I really jumped that hurdle with Twin Plagues where I was not worrying at all really about being vulnerable - I was finally comfortable with it, and I really wanna stay in that zone."
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- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 0.18 x 12.4 x 12.29 inches; 11.36 ounces
- Manufacturer : Dead Oceans
- Original Release Date : 2023
- Date First Available : January 19, 2023
- Label : Dead Oceans
- ASIN : B0BSLWCG3X
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,199 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,031 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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(with prefect phrasing!) by Karly Hartzman. Her voice --
naturally a sort of country warble,--can take on a hard,
riot grrrl edge (as on the bucket-of-cold-water first cut,
"Hot Rotten Grass Smell".
At the begining of the equally intense "Bull Believer", her
voice falls somewhere between Corin Tucker and Kim
Gordon. But then the song morphs into a reflective ballad
where she almost seems to choke up--before breaking up
altogether amid a maelstrom of cymbal and distorted guitar,
ending on the repeated, ominous final words: "finish him".
On "Formula one" she gets the full country ballad
treatment. If only "Dollywood" had room for voices
this quiet and expressive! This country-rock of
Neil Young in the 1970s.
"Chosen to Deserve" is a country anthem--if country
anthems were about friends who "took Benedryl
'till they could see [stuff] crawlin' up the walls."
The narrator in the songs is her younger self: a sort of female
Holden Caulfield (from *Catcher in the Rye*). She takes a
Kerouacian road-trip though a Faulkneresque Southern Gothic
landscape populated by characters out of *Winesburg, Ohio*.
But these are only glimpsed though the window of memory as
the car speeds along.
The landmarks in this odyssey are "Dollar General", "Starbucks",
"a sex shop off the highway with a Biblical name", "Planet Fitness"
and a rest stop where "people stand with their arms crossed in the
line at the Pandera Bread".
It the middle of all this, she tosses off lines like "At night I don't count/
stars I count the dark.". And "memory always twists the knife."
The last cut, "TV in the Gas Pump" is sad and beatufiful. The following
lines could almost be a haiku:
"Chain knockin' against
a metal pole
in the wind"
and these lines are a apt symbol of
America's electronified wasteland:
"TV in the gas pump
blares into the dark"
Musically, the album is diverse, combining rock ballad,
noise rock, shoegaze-like distorted guitars, and country--
often in the same song.
Each on the album instrument manifests in both peaceful and
wrathful aspects: M.J. Linderman's guitar alternately chimes and
shrieks. Xandy Chalmas's lap steel can glide smoothly or quiver
tensely.
The wall-o'-distorted guitar returns in *Bath County* which
raises to a terrific climax, and also appears on the chorus
in *Quarry*--where Hartzman sings over it the best tradition
of shoegaze--only you can understand every word. It ends
in a ritardando leading the words "to sleep".
"Turkey Vultures" does the opposite: accelerates to a punk rock
tempo, while building tension. Shades of Patti Smith's cover
of 'Gloria' --only here the action is more in the instruments.
*What's so Funny* --which starts with just voice ang guitar--
could be folk -- in a Nick Drake sort of way. Alan Miler's drums
Ethan Baechtold's bass hold this song -- and this album--together.
Imagine if Tammy Wynette backed by Sonic Youth had recorded
an album produced by Alan Moulder for 4AD Records in 1993.
It might have sounded like this.