Waxahatchee

Waxahatchee

A black-and-white photo of Crutchfield playing guitar and singing into a microphone

Waxahatchee performing in 2012
Background information
Origin Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Genres
Years active 2010–present
Labels Merge Records
Don Giovanni
Plan-It-X Records
Associated acts
Members Katie Crutchfield
Katherine Simonetti
Ashley Arnwine
Allison Crutchfield

Waxahatchee is an American indie music project, formed in 2010 by American singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield. The band is named after Waxahatchee Creek, in Alabama.[2]

History

While a member of P.S. Eliot, a band formed with her twin sister Allison, Crutchfield released her first music as Waxahatchee as a split cassette with Chris Clavin on Plan-It-X Records. Her bedroom-recorded debut album, American Weekend, was released on Don Giovanni Records in 2012.[3][4][5] Crutchfield wrote and recorded the album in one week at her family home in Birmingham, Alabama. Her lyrics focused on personal relationships, devastation and longing.[6]

The album garnered positive reviews and was named a top album of 2012 by Dusted magazine.[7] "Be Good" was a song of the day on National Public Radio,[8] and listed as one of the best 50 songs of 2012.[9] "Catfish" was featured in Welcome to Night Vale.

A second album, Cerulean Salt, was released in March 2013 on Don Giovanni Records in the United States and four months later on Wichita Recordings in the U.K.[10][11] The critically acclaimed album reached #1 on the Official Record Store Chart in July 2013 and scored 8.4 on Pitchfork.[12][13] Waxahatchee supported Tegan And Sara on their U.K. tour, before playing a headline U.K. tour in October that same year.[11][14]

Crutchfield signed to Merge Records which released her third album, Ivy Tripp, in April 2015.[15] Waxahatchee toured non-stop for the rest of 2015, including tours with Kurt Vile and the Violators and Sleater Kinney.

In 2017 Waxahatchee announced that they would be touring with The New Pornographers.[16]

Waxahatchee's fourth album Out in the Storm, was released on 14 July 2017 on Merge Records.

Discography

Studio albums

Split cassette

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Tom (11 August 2015). "16 Reasons Philadelphia Is the Best Music City in the Country". Philadelphia Magazine.
  2. ↑ Pelly, Jenn. "Rising: Waxahatchee". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Cauvel, Peter. "WAXAHATCHEE - American Weekend". Verbicide Magazine.
  4. ↑ "Waxahatchee playing shows, DBA tonight (dates & streams)". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  5. ↑ Bernardi, Joe. "Dusted Reviews: Waxahatchee American Weekend". Dusted Magazine. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "Twin Rock Dreams Prevail". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Listed: The Dusted Mid-Year Report (2012 Edition)". Dustedmagazine.com. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Tyler-Ameen, Daoud. "Waxahatchee: A Love Song, Without The Love". Npr.org. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "NPR Music's 50 Favorite Songs Of 2012 (So Far)". Npr.org. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  10. ↑ "Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt CD/LP out March 5th!". Dongiovannirecords.com. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  11. 1 2 "'Waxahatchee sign to Wichita, announce Tegan & Sara Support'". Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  12. ↑ "Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt | Album Reviews". Pitchfork.com. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "2013 Top 40 Official Record Store Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Waxahatchee Announces UK Tour + Cerulean Salt Out Now! « Wichita Recordings". Web.archive.org. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  15. ↑ "Waxahatchee shares new album details Archive". Merge Records. Retrieved 12 Jan 2015.
  16. ↑ Yoo, Noah (17 January 2017). "The New Pornographers and Waxahatchee Announce Tour". Pitchfork. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Split by Waxahatchee and Chris Clavin". Rate Your Music. Somenic Inc. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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