Waxahatchee's recently released album 'Saint Cloud' is as good as you've heard. ellen_a_johnson explains why it's a new kind of Americana classic--and one of the best albums of 2020 so far:
There are oodles of twangy subgenres under the country music umbrella. Under the larger Americana tent, there are even more. And so many of these mini-genres can meld with and brush up against movements like folk, roots and blues. Country music is about as easy to compartmentalize as a family of ancient languages branching off from one tree.
But if you want to simplify it a bit, you might categorize the country music of 2020 in two camps: the mainstream —and everything else. And sometimes, the artists working just outside the Nashville establishment are the ones making magic. However, it’s still rare for an alt-country presence to emerge from another genre pool entirely.
Katie Crutchfield, the singer/songwriter who records under the name Waxahatchee, is one of the great indie rockers and lyricists of the 2010s . She’s a serial shapeshifter, drastically and efficiently changing moods and sounds with each release. On 2012’s, she debuted as a promising lo-fi pop prospect, before blowing the roof off her bedroom studio with an honest freak-folk treasure,, just a year later.
, an angry yet beautiful breakup album that projected Crutchfield’s punk roots onto a wider screen than ever before., which knits all the strings of Crutchfield’s past musical lives into a salty, dusty, soothing, quiet red-dirt roots record.is country music for rock fans. It is unlike anything she’s ever signed her name to before; yet, it is undeniably Waxahatchee. In an’s release, Crutchfield wrote, “It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever made.
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