ya, i'm stoked abt the new album too
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDaccHBAGcM
New single out and it totally rules
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 04:38 (six years ago) link
awesome
― niels, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
This new one is streaming on NPR first listen and on my first listen it is their best record, or at least the best since the P.S. Eliot Sadie record which was just dynamite.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
This is great ^ thanks
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
ditto - love this. on my third listen.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
this is really good, and i wasn't prior a Waxahatchee fan
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
Love it. A step up from the last record for sure.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
was never a huge fan before, but this new one shook me to my core
― austinb, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
"no question" rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 17 July 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
As does "Hear You"
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 05:05 (six years ago) link
The single is terrific but the album as a whole is just so rote and straight down the line. I give every album a dutiful listen because there's the kernel of something great in there but she's really hampered by a lack of musical imagination.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 07:13 (six years ago) link
I just interviewed her and she was a goddamn delight. I always worry about talking to artists I have a really string connection to that maybe it'll hurt the connection somehow, but she was so thoughtful and pleasant.
Also Great Thunder is nice little EP
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
that's awesome! look forward to reading the interview when it's published.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
the opening line to sparks fly can sometimes, by itself, make me tear up. "i take it back i was never alone." idk if i've shared this on ilx before
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
I love every Waxahatchee album but this one's pretty immediately my favorite.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 27 March 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
listened twice, haven't really absorbed the lyrics but feels like it's her sturdiest songwriting for sure, just some absolutely marvelous, effortless-sounding tunes.
particularly pleased with the fact that the song with the Fleetwood Mac-ish opening riff is called "Witches."
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
I think Cerulean Salt will remain my fave, but this is a great album
― Mule, Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Really feeling this album. More polished but in a good way
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 30 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
will listen tonight while making pizza. i love waxahatchee so much.
― treeship., Monday, 30 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
Didn't see this till now...really liked the last one, I'll check Bandcamp tonight.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
Her pronounced Dylanisms on the new album are charming, even if the songs are a bit samey; I tend to like her best when she aims for a bigger sound, as on the last album. "Lilacs" is the immediate standout, for me.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
i think this is -- for now -- my favorite band. it's crazy, all of a sudden (last five years lol) they aren't a newish group, but a band with a formidable back catalog i can tap into whenever i want, which is everyday.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
"can't do much" is one of the great love songs of all time, i think. this verse:
When you're missing me or what you seeSomething wild that you think you'll never beSomething safe that you could tend to and leadSomething versatile to fill all your needs
in other hands, this would be a troubling, maybe cynical sort-of-psychoanalytic insight--that people really fall in love with an idea rather than a person. specifically, they fall in love with the idea that the beloved will compensate for the things they lack in themselves.
but she pivots. she knows this is part of love, this play of projections, but it's not something to lament. it's how people are, and the reason they can come to feel they need one another. or something like that. there's something to think about here.
Maybe I give it to you all on a dimeI love you til the day ILove you til the day ILove you til the day ILove you til the day I dieI guess it don't matter why
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
"fire" is equally good. st. cloud is just a tremendous album.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
her best
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 September 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
I didn't really spent too much time with this album at first because i figured it was too "happy" and "bright" for my miserable ass at the start of the pandemic, but I've really come around to it in the past month or so. It's her best since Cerulean Salt
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 7 September 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
it's a hard won "brightness" though. doesn't feel trite.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
but i agree with you. i thought i would miss the darkness of the earlier stuff.
hard-won brightness is a good way to put it!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 7 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
her songwriting has gotten so good. i say this as someone who always loved her stuff, but she is now writing songs that are as subtle and well-realized as it gets. in the pantheon imo
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEyYlyRr2_U
like, just listen to this:
I take it for grantedIf I could love you unconditionallyI could iron out the edges of the darkest skyFor some of us it ain't enoughIt ain't enoughAnd I take off drivingPast places been taintedI put on a good show for youAnd when I turn back aroundWill you drain me back outWill you let me believe that I broke through?
alfred, which poet was it who said that the best poems feel like a memory? like you're seeing, reflected back to you, and crystalized, the best of what you've ever thought? something you'd forgotten
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
whoever that was, i think they were otm and i think these songs have it. nothing feels forced or false and nothing seems simple either.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Thread revive inspired me to listen to Ivy Tripp again - still her best imo.
― mise róna (seandalai), Monday, 7 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
what about the blinding greatness of "Singer's No Star" though?
Mostly all the time will go to youComing up for air for all the people whorecognize the sadness in a stranger with less to lose
We get comfortable with our detachment to our oldest friendsAnd you got me here where I'm left aloneI'm not the only thing you ever left
If I were to spoil a victoryor accept all of your trust and praise in spite of meWill you recognize the failure in my voice before I leave?
We sit on a crowded shipIt's not the ending that's the tragic partIf you'd get off my shoulders and sit beside me we would both be fine
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
Lovely song and masterful lyrics, I agree.
Btw—on the cover of Ivy Tripp is she standing in a field of poison ivy?
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 September 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
and the lilacs drink the waterand the lilacs dieand the lilacs drink the watermarking the slowslowslow passing of time
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 7 May 2021 06:53 (two years ago) link
I've really never listened to this band, but every time I came across a song, either in the wild or on shuffle or on some playlist, I've thought it was lovely. So tonight I played them for the first time (on shuffle) and boy, it's all so great. But it went through this particularly captivating streak of songs, first a cover of "Country Roads" (lovely), then Big Star's "Thirteen" (always lovely), then their own "Fire" (incredible) and then "Streets of Philadelphia," which killed me dead.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 May 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
she is an exceptionally good songwriter. "fire" is unbelievable.
― treeship., Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:04 (two years ago) link
fuck me American Weekend is nine years old already
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 20 May 2021 06:00 (two years ago) link
i love saint cloud, it’s fucking good as hell
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
I was just lukewarm on Waxahatchee all these years and lost track of her output a while ago, but was convinced to check out St. Cloud when it started showing up on various EOY lists. Easily one of my favorite albums of the last 2-3 years.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
Saint Cloud is great, but I think American Weekend is still unsurmountable masterpiece.
― braised cod, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
exactly same, pgwp
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
i'd probably need to give em all a listen again but I think Out of the Storm is my favourite, though about half the tracks on Cerulean Salt are downright friggin amazing
I really like Saint Cloud but it sort of fell off my listening rotation. Fire is amazing, but -- and this is more of a personal preference than a genuine criticism -- I find I cant relate to the warm vibe of it that much? maybe i just need to brighten up, but the angst and tension in her previous records are what really grab me.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 15 October 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
also, katie is one of the few artists whose autograph I have and I take pride in that. (an autographed copy of ivy tripp from 2015, specifically). but ah, asking an artist for an autograph is such an awkward experience.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 15 October 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
I thought she was hella boring for years. Then Saint Cloud impressed me. At Pitchfork she made me hear how many of those songs are variations on "Sweet Jane" chords to my ears.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
I fiercely love every one of her albums. St Cloud is the least melancholy. There is hard won hope in it.
― treeship., Friday, 15 October 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
New album coming under the name Plains, a duo with Jess Williamson. First song is great.
https://www.stereogum.com/2194397/plains-katie-crutchfield-jess-williamson-problem-with-it/music/amp/
I’m not familiar with Williamson, so giving her most recent solo album a spin.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
that's a great little song, thanks for the heads up
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 July 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
pgwp otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:42 (one month ago) link
more songs from the territory of st. cloud but i'm not complaining bc they're great
― ivy., Friday, 22 March 2024 21:45 (one month ago) link
well of all the great records released yesterday this is the one i can't stop listening to
― ivy., Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:07 (one month ago) link
well, what's it gonna taaaaaaaaaaaaake
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:16 (one month ago) link
The Tigers Blood title track has marvelous lyrics.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
Her voice has taken a step up from saint cloud. it's really something here.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 25 March 2024 14:16 (four weeks ago) link
^^ otm. her singing on "burns out at midnight" and "crimes of the heart" - best in her career
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:41 (three weeks ago) link
"365" too
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:45 (three weeks ago) link
Crutchfield should cover this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wPqaUMlkE
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2024 15:33 (three weeks ago) link
Female-fronted country rock is having a moment, huh? Alternative/Indie's got Wednesday, Ratboys, Waxahatchee, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Big Thief. Pop's got Kacey and now even Beyonce. Thrilling time to be a fan.
― Indexed, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:02 (three weeks ago) link
Plus all the Margos and Maggies and Morgans, etc
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:24 (three weeks ago) link