Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt (LP Vinyl)
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Katie Crutchfield wrote some of the most quietly devastating songs of the 2010s indie underground, and Cerulean Salt, originally released in 2013, is where that gift fully crystallized. The Alabama roots run deep here, and the rawness of the recording captures something that more polished productions rarely touch: the specific ache of place, family, and the particular loneliness of your mid-twenties.
Limited cerulean blue colored vinyl LP pressing. On her second full-length record as Waxahatchee, former P.S. Eliot singer Katie Crutchfield's compelling hyper-personal poetry is continuously crushing. Cerulean Salt follows American Weekend - a collection of minimal acoustic-guitar pop written and recorded in a week at her family's Birmingham home. On this record, Crutchfield's songs continue to be marked by her sharp, hooky songwriting; her striking voice and lyrics that simultaneously seem hyper-personal yet relentlessly relatable, teetering between endearingly nostalgic and depressingly dark. But whereas before the thematic focus of her songcraft was on break ups and passive-aggressive crushing, this record reflects on her family and Alabama upbringing. Whereas American Weekend was mostly just Crutchfield and her guitar, Cerulean Salt is occasionally amped up, with a full band and higher-fi production.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 634457132122
Label: Don Giovanni Records
Release Date: 7.7.23
Format: LP Vinyl