Photo by Martina Gonzalez Bertello

“Pick Up That Knife’ is a song that revolves around feelings of helplessness, when every minor inconvenience hurts double ’cause you’re close to giving up. It’s also about when our pedal steel player Xandy threw up in the moshpit during the Death Grips set at Primavera Sound in 2023,” says Karly Hartzman of “Pick Up That Knife”, the latest single from the country-fried Asheville indie rockers’ new album, Bleeds. Collectively, the band are in it together in going through it — everything from nearly choking on cough drops, vomiting inside the aforementioned pit, parking too close to another car and not being able to get out, to having to fire the wedding band are the banes of their daily existence. The most first world problem can become the basis of a villain origin stories, and while Hartzman and company’s Southern dazed ebb and flow motions through the bell curves does its best to shrug its shoulders at them, something as micro as a clogged drain loudly sends them off the deep end. “Someday, I’ll kill the bitch in my brain,” Hartzman laments. At least her crash out finds a proper resting place in a great song…

Directed by: Sara Melosh

Wednesday’s Bleeds will be released September 18th on Dead Oceans.