Wednesday’s set at Primavera Sound 2023 was one of my highlights of the festival, but I didn’t get to catch Death Grips’ performance that year. If you did, and you remember someone throwing up in the pit, we now have confirmation that it was none other than Wednesday’s Xandy Chelmis. The incident is referenced in the band’s piercing new single ‘Pick Up That Knife’, the latest from their forthcoming album Bleeds. Check it out via the Sara Melosh-directed video below.
“’Pick Up That Knife’ is a song that revolves around feelings of helplessness, when every minor inconvenience hurts double cause you’re close to giving up,” bandleader Karly Hartzman explained. “It’s also about when our pedal steel player Xandy threw up in the moshpit during the Death Grips set at Primavera Sound in 2023.”
Bleeds, the follow-up to 2023’s Rat Saw God, is due for release on September 19 through Dead Oceans. ‘Pick Up That Knife’ follows previous cuts ‘Elderberry Wine’ and ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’.
