Rat Saw God is Wednesday Songs's crown jewel - a quilt of portraits from the American south, a trove of tapestries rendered in Karly Hartzman's spellbinding vocal and guitar-forward sound. MJ Lenderman, Margo Shultz, Alan Miller, and Xandy Chelmis join her in creating a shrine to detail: the laughter and sadness of North Carolina, caught between '90s shoegaze and classic country twang. Lyrical images of suburban stretches, rusty car parts, kudzu-taken homesteads, Four Lokos and rodeo clowns - it's all familiar here. But Rat Saw God isn't an epic, it's the everyday; it's a recognition that everybody's life story is worth telling, and Hartzman's way of ensuring that we all feel seen. Rat Saw God is the meeting of the mundane and the magnificent, a glimpse of the South alive in night comes alive in summer and fall, of football games and
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