Label: Dead Oceans Reissued 4/7/2023, Originally released 2021 In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that I'm not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately more treacherous for me when I had to witness the very real toll that time, modern anxieties, isolation, and boredom were taking on me. It was easier, it seemed, to spiral into a not-so-distant glorious past, to use memory as a tool of both excitement and healing. But, speaking of excitement, I like to stumble towards a band with no agenda, no purpose, uncovering sound almost on accident. This is how I first heard Wednesday. -Hanif Abdurraqib Track listing: Twin Plagues Handsome Man The Burned Down Dairy Queen Cliff How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do Cody's Only Toothache Birthday Song One More Last One Three Sisters Gary's Ghost of a Dog
