Wednesday- Twin Plagues

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:

1. Twin Plagues
2. Handsome Man
3. The Burned Down Dairy Queen
4. Cliff
5. How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do
6. Cody's Only
7. Toothache
8. Birthday Song
9. One More Last One
10. Three Sisters
11. Gary's
12. Ghost of a Dog