MJ Lenderman has revealed that he’ll not tour with Wednesday.
The ‘She’s Leaving You’ singer joined Wednesday in 2020 alongside Karly Hartzman, who initially fashioned the band as a solo venture in 2017. Since then, they’ve launched three albums – the newest being 2023’s ‘Rat Saw God‘ – and toured extensively.
Now although, Lenderman has shared that his days on the highway with the band have come to an finish. In a brand new interview with GQ, he mentioned {that a} January 4 present at Japan’s rockin’on sonic competition was his last with them.
“With every new phase of my ‘career,’ or whatever visibility I have, I have to make new adjustments to protect what I am doing,” Lenderman advised the publication.
He additionally outlined how his breakup with Hartzman and intense touring schedules contributed to his determination. “It brings me a little comfort to know where the horizon is, to know when tour is over,” he mentioned. “Before I decided to step back from Wednesday, that was up in the air forever. That made me really nervous.”
Lenderman went on to say that he’ll proceed to document music with Wednesday and revealed that the brand new band member who will change him at stay exhibits is known as Jake.
Lenderman and Hartzman each lined Counting Crows’ ‘A Long December’ at separate gigs in December, every joined by totally different members of Wednesday.
Lenderman’s fourth solo LP ‘Manning Fireworks’ was launched in September and landed a spot on NME’s 50 greatest albums of 2024 listing. The monitor ‘She’s Leaving You’ was additionally included in NME’s 50 greatest songs of 2024.
“Breakup songs can contain multitudes: despair, uncertainty, full-throated resentment. MJ Lenderman’s writing on ‘She’s Leaving You’, on the other hand, is characterised by a shrugging, clear-eyed sadness, leaning into the abject silence of heartbreak in its refrain: “It gets dark, we all got work to do,” NME wrote. “Slacker rock melancholia at its most enlightened.”