MJ Lenderman will not tour with Wednesday

MJ Lenderman has revealed that he'll not tour with Wednesday.

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The ‘She’s Leaving You’ singer joined Wednesday in 2020 alongside Karly Hartzman, who initially fashioned the band as a solo mission in 2017. Since then, they’ve launched three albums – the most recent being 2023’s ‘Rat Noticed 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 pageant was his remaining with them.

“With each new section of my ‘profession,’ or no matter visibility I've, I've to make new changes to guard what I'm doing,” Lenderman advised the publication.

He additionally outlined how his breakup with Hartzman and intense touring schedules contributed to his choice. “It brings me somewhat consolation to know the place the horizon is, to know when tour is over,” he mentioned. “Earlier than I made a decision to step again from Wednesday, that was up within the air ceaselessly. That made me actually nervous.”

Lenderman went on to say that he'll proceed to report music with Wednesday and revealed that the brand new band member who will substitute him at stay reveals is named Jake.

Lenderman and Hartzman each coated Counting Crows’ ‘A Lengthy December’ at separate gigs in December, every joined by completely different members of Wednesday.

Lenderman’s fourth solo LP ‘Manning Fireworks’ was launched in September and landed a spot on NME’s 50 finest albums of 2024 record. The observe ‘She’s Leaving You’ was additionally included in NME’s 50 finest songs of 2024.

“Breakup songs can include multitudes: despair, uncertainty, full-throated resentment. MJ Lenderman’s writing on ‘She’s Leaving You’, then again, is characterised by a shrugging, clear-eyed disappointment, leaning into the abject silence of heartbreak in its chorus: “It will get darkish, all of us received work to do,” NME wrote. “Slacker rock melancholia at its most enlightened.”