Waxahatchee

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Waxahatchee at the WayBackWhen Festival 2017.

Waxahatchee is an American indie rock band project from Birmingham, Alabama , that the singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield founded in 2010 with musician friends. She is still the band leader, writing the lyrics and composing most of the musical material. The unusual name comes from Waxahatchee Creek in the US state of Alabama .

Band history

Waxahatchee, 2012
Crutchfield Twins on stage, 2015

Katie Crutchfield originally played with her twin sister Allison in the punk rock band The Ackleys , later in the pop-punk band PS Eliot , founded in 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama. Katie played various electric guitars and sang, Allison was the drummer. While this music project was still in existence, she began her own solo projects, such as the singer-songwriter King Everything . She called one of these new projects Waxahatchee and the first songs were released in 2011 as a split music cassette under the name Dragon (together with Chris Clavin) by the Bloomington (Indiana) indie label Plan-It-X Records . Her role models , who have always inspired her since she was fifteen, included REM and The Velvet Underground , Neko Case, and especially Lucinda Williams in songwriting . At least one Williams cover title, mostly the song Greenville , is almost always present at Waxahatchees live performances. Waxahatchee's first proper album, American Weekend (2012), was recorded by Katie within a week, mostly at her home in Birmingham, Alabama. That's what you do in the Do-It-Yourself rockpunk scene. It was released on the punk rock-specialized indie label Don Giovanni Records from New Brunswick (New Jersey) . It received good reviews in the US indie music scene, including Dusted Magazine and National Public Radio . The song Catfish was featured on the popular radio podcast Welcome to Night Vale . The second album Cerulean Salt was released again in March 2013 on Don Giovanni Records in the United States and four months later on Wichita Recordings in England. The British rock music review press consistently gave the album very good ratings (“earned high praise across the board”). The band had a week-long tour of Great Britain together with the Canadian indie band Tegan and Sara in early autumn. In the US music magazine Pitchfork , Cerulean Salt was voted 104 of the 200 best albums of the 2010s at the end of 2019. Ivy Tripp , her third album, was released in April 2015 on the larger indie music label Merge Records from Durham (North Carolina) and at the same time on Wichita Records for Europe. The tour for the album went through five European capitals, some North American cities and several large British cities. The album is named after a deceased friend named Tripp; Crutchfield's word creation aims at the occasional lack of orientation, the unpredictable in the life of younger people in particular. Her "will to authenticity makes Waxahatchee one of the most interesting US songwriters at the moment," praised the intro music magazine. In April 2017, the band took part in Our First 100 Days , the protest against Donald Trump's inauguration. Waxahatchee's fourth album Out in the Storm was released on Merge Records on July 14, 2017. The US Rolling Stone review praised it: “Every song is as exhaustive as it is thrilling.” It even got very good reviews in Germany, for example from the FAZ . The album, on which Zwilling Allison also played for the first time and took over the keyboards , has the potential to "finally leave the status of the insider tip band behind". Jon Caramanica, music critic for the New York Times , characterized Waxahatchee in a detailed portrait of a musician in September 2017 as the contemporary standard bearer of indie rock ("indie-rock flagbearers"). The band toured across the United States in the first half of 2017 with The New Pornographers from Canada . In the early autumn of 2017, Waxahatchee toured Central Europe and Scandinavia and made several appearances in Germany, including the Reeperbahn Festival . Like a typical rock jam band , they are almost permanently on tour, in late autumn 2017 mainly in the American southern states. In January 2018, the Bloomington, Indiana independent label Dead Oceans released the two-song single as a joint effort with ex- Woods bass guitarist and singer-songwriter Kevin MorbyFarewell Transmission b / w The Dark Don't Hide It . Both songs are penned by the drunk American song poet Jason Molina , who died early in 2013 , and the cover versions pay homage to him. All proceeds from the digital single go to the Musicares charity. In February 2018, Third Man Records released the vinyl single Live At Third Man . It contains the Lucinda Williams cover song Greenville and the original composition La Loose , both recorded live in March 2017.

Waxahatchee opened the Jawbreaker's first concert in Los Angeles in 22 years at the Hollywood Palladium Concert Hall on March 10, 2018 . On June 9, 2018, she performed with Courtney Barnett at the Bataclan in Paris, followed by a tour of the major cities of England. A long tour through major North American cities together with Barnett is then on the agenda. A digital single, Chapel of Pines , released by Merge Records on Youtube on July 17, 2018 , goes solo back to Katie Crutchfield's roots, the emo songwriting sound of Cerulean Salts. It is a preliminary to the Great Thunder EP coming out on September 7th . The six songs written by Katie Crutchfield and produced by Brad Cook are performed rather calmly and solo, a 180 degree U-turn from the 'Storm' album. The song lyrics are about self-image and relationship dynamics, she emphasizes that she is not aloof. In the first half of 2019, Katie Crutchfield toured the US West Coast states. She was accompanied by the four-piece band Bonny Doon from Detroit.

On March 27, 2020, Waxahatchee released the album Saint Cloud , on which Crutchfield rose to " lyrical top form" according to the radio station ByteFM , while the music got a strong alternative country influence . In terms of content, the eleven tracks of the album, which will again be released on Merge Records, are about the long struggle and overcoming years of alcohol addiction won in 2018. “Crutchfield is now an explorer who is perceiving her world in a new way.” The album title Saint Cloud refers to St. Cloud in Florida , her father's hometown , among other things . Waxahatchee reached No. 7 of the US Billboard's Emerging Artists Charts, because Saint Cloud was also No. 1 of the Billboard Heatseekers Albums, No. 2 of the Americana / Folk Albums and No. 6 of the alternative albums with 7000 units. The single Lilacs made No. 36 on the Adult Alternative Songs radio chart list.

American indie musicians like Waxahatchee are also discovering the possibilities of getting back into direct contact with their audience through their own live streaming offers. In a tweet on May 27, she announced that she would play her five studio albums completely live on the five Mondays of June 2020 from 8 p.m. local time. The series began on Whit Monday, June 1, with American Weekend .

Discographic Notes

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Ivy Tripp
  UK 98 04/18/2015 (1 week)
  US 153 04/25/2015 (1 week)
Saint Cloud
  US 140 04/11/2020 (1 week)
  • American Weekend (2012, Don Giovanni Records)
  • Cerulean Salt (2013, Don Giovanni Records USA; Wichita Recordings UK)
  • Ivy Tripp (2015, Merge Records )
  • Early Recordings (EP 2016, Merge) - Re-release of the Dragon material from 2011
  • Out in the Storm (2017, Merge Records)
  • Farewell Transmission b / w The Dark Don't Hide It (Duo Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee) (2018, Dead Oceans)
  • Great Thunder (EP 2018, Merge)
  • Saint Cloud (2020, Merge)

Web links

Commons : Waxahatchee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

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