Julia’s War Recordings has announced the reissue of their first-ever release (JWR001), Guttering, a collaborative EP from North Carolina indie artists MJ Lenderman & Wednesday, arriving on tape and vinyl in record stores worldwide on June 20, 2025.
This marks the first time Guttering will be pressed to vinyl, and the second collaborative EP from the duo was initially released on tape and digitally, along with videos for “Big Money” and “Phish Pepsi.” Track 5 of the project, their cover of Greg Sage’s “Sacrifice (For Love),” was later included in Wednesday’s covers album, Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ‘em Up.
Label head of Julia’s War Recordings, Douglas Dulagrian, reflects:
Life is filled with a lot of events that don’t seem as initially important as they turn out to be. Sometimes, I’ll look back at a chance encounter or passing interaction years later and realize, ‘Wow, that event was the catalyst for all this change.’ Every journey begins with one step, sure, but I don’t think we ever really realize how much of a journey that little step will cause. It’s funny to think how much ‘Guttering’ changed my life. It’s a blessing that, for the past ten years, all my favorite bands have just been my friends, and even more of a blessing that, in the past four or five, they’re willing to work with me. I’m proud that this record was the first Julia’s War release four or five years ago. Crazy to think about that. And these days, all these years later, records like ‘Guttering’ and many more have allowed the thing to grow into what it is today: a label of all my favorite bands, and it’s still just all my f*cking friends. Each release is this little chapter in the book of it all. And that little guy on the cover is the first page.
In 2021, Douglas Dulgarian of They Are Gutting A Body of Water (TAGABOW) issued the very first cassette release on his brand new label, Julia’s War Recordings. It was a collaborative EP made by his friends Jake Lenderman and Karly Hartzman called Guttering, issued under their pseudonyms MJ Lenderman & Wednesday.
