MJ Lenderman & Wednesday: Guttering (EP, olive green vinyl) [JULIA'S WAR]

Why you'll love it

A 12" EP on olive green vinyl, cut at 45rpm, putting MJ Lenderman and his Wednesday bandmates on the same record. It has "Phish Pepsi" with Advance Base, plus five more songs from the scene that made Asheville the capital of loud, sad, funny guitar music.

This edition

• 12" EP on olive green vinyl
• Cut at 45rpm
• Julia's War pressing (cat# JWR001)
• Six songs, three per side

About the album

Before MJ Lenderman became one of the most talked-about songwriters in indie rock, and before Wednesday's Rat Saw God turned up on every year-end list going, they were a group of friends in Asheville, North Carolina, swapping songs, playing on each other's records and making a glorious racket in borrowed rooms. Lenderman played lead guitar in Wednesday for years alongside Karly Hartzman, Xandy Chelmis, Margo Shultz and Alan Miller, and the two projects have always shared a sense of humour, a love of country twang and a taste for very loud guitars.

Guttering catches them together. "Phish Pepsi" brings in Owen Ashworth of Advance Base for something tender and a bit strange, "Big Money" and "Terminex" open with that familiar shaggy charm, and "My Voice Is a Little Horse," "Sacrifice (For Love)" and "Christiane F." round out the second side with steel guitar, feedback and plenty of heart. It plays like a mixtape from your coolest friends, and it sounds terrific at 45rpm. Short, scrappy and over far too quickly, which is exactly why you will flip it straight back over.

Tracklist

Listen

On Julia's War (cat# JWR001), first out on vinyl in 2025.