“You saw a pitbull puppy pissing off a balcony,” belts Wednesday vocalist-lyricist Karly Hartzman on the band’s new single, “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On).” It’s exactly the type of evocative, instantly memorable line that has helped to propel Wednesday to the forefront of the indie world — and Bleeds, the North Carolina group’s sixth album (due out Sept. 19), is chock-full of them.

Hartzman’s lyrics blur the line between memoir and fiction and come from any number of places: lived experience, local news, vivid passages in books — or, in the case of the pissing pitbull puppy, from a text from her mother. “She said, ‘This sounds like something you would write!’ ” Hartzman says, explaining that her mom works for a nonprofit that helps struggling mothers and saw the urinating canine when maki

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