I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone is Wednesday's 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 Hartzman's bell-clear vocals & wisps of half-recalled

memories & literary references that make up her lyrics. I Was Trying

to Describe You to Someone's 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 Wednesday's' 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 Hartzman's home

with engineering assistance from her roommate Colin Miller. The depth

& clarity of the recordings balance the distorted volume of Wednesday's

live performances with the intimacy of Hartzman's 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 O'Connor, David Berman & Tom

Robbins, & movies like Steel Magnolias."