On “Bleeds,” the blistering new album from rock band Wednesday , Karly Hartzman sings about false teeth, Four Lokos, fruit flies and other oddities from her daily life in Asheville, N.C. But a favorite, tongue-twisting lyric about “a pitbull puppy pissing off a balcony” was actually an observation from the frontwoman’s mom.

“She’s a social worker, and she was in kind of a shitty neighborhood and saw that happen,” Hartzman says. “I don’t know if the family was at work and they just left the dog on the balcony or something. But my mom was like, ‘This seems like a fucked-up kind of thing you’d be into writing.’”

On “Bleeds,” Hartzman weaves together vivid stories from her teenage years and mythologizes the characters in her neighborhood. The album contains some of the band’s best tracks y

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