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ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD – “ I Don’t Ever Wanna Leave California “

Posted: January 13, 2017 in MUSIC
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Allison Crutchfield of Swearin’and Waxahatchee is preparing the release of her debut solo album, “Tourist In this Town”. We’ve already heard the track  “Dean’s Room,” and now Crutchfield has a new video for “I Don’t Ever Wanna Leave California.” Directed by Crutchfield and Catherine Elicson, the song features Crutchfield waxing nostalgic about the promise of California in front of a facsimile of beachside paradise: a plastic photo backdrop and a palm tree party decoration.

Allison Crutchfield invites you to join in her wintry dreams of west coast sunshine and square footage with a brand-new video for ” I Don’t Ever Wanna Leave California” the second single from her debut full-length album “Tourist In This Town”. The song’s charming melody and harmonies unite with biting lyrics like “we’re pretty far away from Philadelphia and/ that’s fine cuz I’m really starting to hate you and anyways I am looking to move/ I keep confusing love and nostalgia/ I don’t ever wanna leave California” that highlight the journalistic themes of Crutchfield’s new record.

“Tourist in This Town” will be in stores on January 27th.

 

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Under a Rock ” Live at the World Café 30th May 2015

Posted: June 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Waxahatchee performs “Under A Rock” for a World Cafe Session with host, David Dye. Recorded at WXPN/World Cafe Studios on 30/5/15

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: June 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Waxahatchee performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded May 3, 2015.  Katie Crutchfield performs four songs from her new album “IVY TRIPP” live on KEXP Radio, Can’t get enough Waxahatchee? Same here. That’s why we’ve rounded up some of the best video sessions from the past few months of the Ivy Trip  tour

Songs:
Under A Rock
(Less Than)
The Dirt
La Loose

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Under A Rock ” and ” Air “

Posted: April 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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If you’ve been eagerly awaiting Waxahatchee’s new album Ivy Tripp, you don’t have to wait until its release next week to get a peak at Katie Crutchfield’s latest hazy, sometimes melancholy tunes. You can stream the entire album here. And, for those of you who weren’t lucky enough to catch Waxhatchee’s shows at SXSW two weeks ago, you’ll still be able to catch them during festival season this summer at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

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Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee) describes her new album, “Ivy Tripp”. And of course, she’s right, it certainly is a Waxahatchee record. The songs are a little rough around the edges (some critics call it “DIY”) with lyrics that are at times intimate, at times stubborn and private. There’s the distant and hazy memory of ’90s singer-songwriters. But this time things are slightly different – there’s a little more steel to the sound.

The single “Under a Rock” is described by Crutchfield as “angrier” than previous work and it shows – there’s the painful sense that someone’s leaving you knowing full well they’ll be better off for it by the time they get to the horizon – “it’s that kind of anger that leads to something productive. In that sense its a positive emotion and it’s a hopeful song.”

The song is accompanied by a video, premiered here, that was shot at Philadelphia’s Golden Tea House (sadly, it was the final piece of music recorded at the venue as it closed down shortly afterwards) and continues that acclaimed DIY aesthetic. Much like Katie Crutchfield’s recording process –

 

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Under A Rock “

Posted: February 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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A good Waxahatchee song happens when Katie Crutchfield sounds like she’s talking directly to you , The best Waxahatchee songs are when she’s telling you things that require the preface of “you might want to sit down for this.” Case in point, “Under a Rock”—and her words will hurt you way more than her. “You” are self-absorbed and emotionally impenetrable; worst of all, you are all of these things in the most clichéd way, your affectations no more than fashionable, unread books on a shelf. But Crutchfield’s narrator isn’t much better off: “Maybe I let on that I was interested in your brand of lonely,” she sings, not particularly remorseful

What makes “Under a Rock” immediately different than most Waxahatchee songs that fumble through post coital communication failures is its broad strokes, that “you”, “me” and “I” . Like most successful indie acts, Waxahatchee play festivals despite not being a typical “festival band”; this is a precarious position, but “Under a Rock”, like most of the new album “Ivy Tripp“, demonstrates an act whose intimacy is scalable.

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Misery Over Dispute “

Posted: February 18, 2015 in MUSIC
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Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield . The Birmingham, Alabama native transitions from her lo-fi acoustic sound to a full band and electric guitar.  for her new album, “Ivy Tripp”, which will be released April 7th. Even a somewhat inessential Waxahatchee video lets us remind you to check out Essential 2013 album “Cerulean Salt“. The Katie Crutchield-led project’s had a simple charm, which Joshua Mikel, who edited that clip, somewhat captures in the new one for “Misery Over Dispute.” Really, though, as elegant as the black-and-white cinematography and Katie Crutchfield’s tap-dancing can be, this time the video works best as a vehicle for another smoldering Waxahatche fuzz-rock anthem. That said: Crutchfield looks to be a skilled tap dancer, with chops honed in 14 childhood years of dancing. The clip, shot in a Birmingham, Alabama, firehouse converted into a performance space, also serves as a preview for Crutchfield and co.’s upcoming tour with her sister Allison’s band Swearin’.

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Air “

Posted: January 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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Few songwriters capture the feelings of directionlessness and transition quite like Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield. Katie Crutchfield has announced a new Waxahatchee album, Ivy Tripp, out on April 7th from her new label, Merge Records. She produced her new record once again with Swearin’ members Kyle Gilbride and Keith Spencer, who both worked as co-producers on the last Waxahatchee album, “Cerulean Salt”. Along with the album announcement, she also shared a new track called “Air”.

Ivy Tripp has been described as a “developed and aged version of Waxahatchee.” “My life has changed a lot in the last two years, and it’s been hard for me to process my feelings other than by writing songs,” says Crutchfield in a press release. “I think a running theme (of Ivy Tripp) is steadying yourself on shaky ground and reminding yourself that you have control in situations that seem overwhelming, or just being cognizant in moments of deep confusion or sadness, and learning to really feel emotions and to grow from that.”

In support of the new album, Waxahatchee will embark on a US tour with The Goodbye Party and Girlpool. Looks like this spring will be a season filled with raw indie-rock feels.

 

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