3. Bath County
by Wednesday
Wednesday was new to me this year, but I couldn’t get this song out of my head.
Off Wednesday’s upcoming album, Rat Saw God, out April 7 via Dead Oceans, “Bath County” epitomizes Hartzman’s strengths as a storyteller and songwriter, as well as Wednesday’s charged, southern-fried indie rock. The song is a disjointed collage of scenes Hartzman witnessed (including the parking lot overdose, which was seen before a day riding roller coasters at Dollywood), but she renders them in a way that makes you think you could trace a narrative arc from the first verse to the last.