better off listening to T.S. Eliot imo
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
it feels like an album of demos that never got fleshed out
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
idk I love this album
― courtney barnett formula (seandalai), Thursday, 23 April 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
agree with cad but sounding like demos isn't really a negative for me in this case. i used to be a die-hard gbv fan so i've already bought into the 'just throw down a verse and a chorus or 2 and then move on' approach to songwriting
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 April 2015 02:50 (nine years ago) link
There's this annoying thing she does that sounds like she's unnecessarily pausing for breath in the middle of a phrase, kinda kills the song when it happens, her vocal lines sound ponderous more often than not.
― Matt DC, Friday, 24 April 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
The p4k review of the p.s. Eliot reissue brought me back to that first p.s. Eliot album for the first time in awhile, goddamn this is great stuff. This record is basically what I wish pop punk sounded like. It's so loose but stuffed with hooks.
― carly reagan jepsen (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 8 September 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edl7918vuDU
― Treeship, Monday, 5 December 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
old song. just, you know, good.
― Treeship, Monday, 5 December 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
I've liked her in the past, but her records always end up being kind of ephemeral for me. This sounds a lot brighter, bigger and poppier than her older stuff, though, and I think its pretty great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpMXuzHR3I
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Friday, 21 April 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
yeah this is great
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 21 April 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
her sister's new album is really good - I've seen reviews talking about the use of synths etc but to me it sounds like a throwback indie singer-songwriter album
― boxedjoy, Friday, 21 April 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
that ep of early recordings from last year is incredible
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I've been listening to all three of her albums recently. Much better than I think people realize.
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Like, ivy tripp holds up after a quadrillion replays.
― Treeship, Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
ya, i'm stoked abt the new album too
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 May 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDaccHBAGcM
New single out and it totally rules
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 04:38 (seven years ago) link
awesome
― niels, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
This new one is streaming on NPR first listen and on my first listen it is their best record, or at least the best since the P.S. Eliot Sadie record which was just dynamite.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
This is great ^ thanks
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
ditto - love this. on my third listen.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
this is really good, and i wasn't prior a Waxahatchee fan
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
Love it. A step up from the last record for sure.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
was never a huge fan before, but this new one shook me to my core
― austinb, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
"no question" rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 17 July 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
As does "Hear You"
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 05:05 (six years ago) link
The single is terrific but the album as a whole is just so rote and straight down the line. I give every album a dutiful listen because there's the kernel of something great in there but she's really hampered by a lack of musical imagination.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 07:13 (six years ago) link
I just interviewed her and she was a goddamn delight. I always worry about talking to artists I have a really string connection to that maybe it'll hurt the connection somehow, but she was so thoughtful and pleasant.
Also Great Thunder is nice little EP
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
that's awesome! look forward to reading the interview when it's published.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
the opening line to sparks fly can sometimes, by itself, make me tear up. "i take it back i was never alone." idk if i've shared this on ilx before
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
I love every Waxahatchee album but this one's pretty immediately my favorite.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 27 March 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
listened twice, haven't really absorbed the lyrics but feels like it's her sturdiest songwriting for sure, just some absolutely marvelous, effortless-sounding tunes.
particularly pleased with the fact that the song with the Fleetwood Mac-ish opening riff is called "Witches."
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
I think Cerulean Salt will remain my fave, but this is a great album
― Mule, Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Really feeling this album. More polished but in a good way
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 30 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
will listen tonight while making pizza. i love waxahatchee so much.
― treeship., Monday, 30 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
Didn't see this till now...really liked the last one, I'll check Bandcamp tonight.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
Her pronounced Dylanisms on the new album are charming, even if the songs are a bit samey; I tend to like her best when she aims for a bigger sound, as on the last album. "Lilacs" is the immediate standout, for me.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
i think this is -- for now -- my favorite band. it's crazy, all of a sudden (last five years lol) they aren't a newish group, but a band with a formidable back catalog i can tap into whenever i want, which is everyday.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
"can't do much" is one of the great love songs of all time, i think. this verse:
When you're missing me or what you seeSomething wild that you think you'll never beSomething safe that you could tend to and leadSomething versatile to fill all your needs
in other hands, this would be a troubling, maybe cynical sort-of-psychoanalytic insight--that people really fall in love with an idea rather than a person. specifically, they fall in love with the idea that the beloved will compensate for the things they lack in themselves.
but she pivots. she knows this is part of love, this play of projections, but it's not something to lament. it's how people are, and the reason they can come to feel they need one another. or something like that. there's something to think about here.
Maybe I give it to you all on a dimeI love you til the day ILove you til the day ILove you til the day ILove you til the day I dieI guess it don't matter why
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
"fire" is equally good. st. cloud is just a tremendous album.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
her best
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 September 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
I didn't really spent too much time with this album at first because i figured it was too "happy" and "bright" for my miserable ass at the start of the pandemic, but I've really come around to it in the past month or so. It's her best since Cerulean Salt
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 7 September 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
it's a hard won "brightness" though. doesn't feel trite.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
but i agree with you. i thought i would miss the darkness of the earlier stuff.
hard-won brightness is a good way to put it!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 7 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
her songwriting has gotten so good. i say this as someone who always loved her stuff, but she is now writing songs that are as subtle and well-realized as it gets. in the pantheon imo
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEyYlyRr2_U
like, just listen to this:
I take it for grantedIf I could love you unconditionallyI could iron out the edges of the darkest skyFor some of us it ain't enoughIt ain't enoughAnd I take off drivingPast places been taintedI put on a good show for youAnd when I turn back aroundWill you drain me back outWill you let me believe that I broke through?
alfred, which poet was it who said that the best poems feel like a memory? like you're seeing, reflected back to you, and crystalized, the best of what you've ever thought? something you'd forgotten
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
whoever that was, i think they were otm and i think these songs have it. nothing feels forced or false and nothing seems simple either.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Thread revive inspired me to listen to Ivy Tripp again - still her best imo.
― mise róna (seandalai), Monday, 7 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
what about the blinding greatness of "Singer's No Star" though?
Mostly all the time will go to youComing up for air for all the people whorecognize the sadness in a stranger with less to lose
We get comfortable with our detachment to our oldest friendsAnd you got me here where I'm left aloneI'm not the only thing you ever left
If I were to spoil a victoryor accept all of your trust and praise in spite of meWill you recognize the failure in my voice before I leave?
We sit on a crowded shipIt's not the ending that's the tragic partIf you'd get off my shoulders and sit beside me we would both be fine
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link
Lovely song and masterful lyrics, I agree.
Btw—on the cover of Ivy Tripp is she standing in a field of poison ivy?
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 September 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKDEpytxlw
fantastic
― ivy., Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:05 (three months ago) link
Just one listen but this is very good -- not as immediate/hooky as Saint Cloud, but a more mature sound, more penetrating lyrics, and may well be a better album....time will tell. Lead singles were my favorite -- "Right Back to It" and "Bored" are stunners -- but the comedown in the last four tracks or so ("Crowbar," "The Wolves") also grabbed me.
― Indexed, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:26 (two months ago) link
I am such a sucker for a good male/female harmony and this record's got a bunch of them
― Indexed, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:27 (two months ago) link
Loving it so far but not ready to compare to St Cloud, which would be unfair. That album was a grower and I expect this one will be too. But first listen, every song is a winner.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:04 (two months ago) link
Kind of annoyed that this is out today, but Anti says they aren't shipping the copy I pre-ordered three months ago until April 5th.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
huh i had no idea this was on Anti and not Merge! Still need to listen to it
― a (waterface), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link
pgwp otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:42 (two months ago) link
more songs from the territory of st. cloud but i'm not complaining bc they're great
― ivy., Friday, 22 March 2024 21:45 (two months ago) link
well of all the great records released yesterday this is the one i can't stop listening to
― ivy., Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
well, what's it gonna taaaaaaaaaaaaake
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:16 (two months ago) link
The Tigers Blood title track has marvelous lyrics.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
Her voice has taken a step up from saint cloud. it's really something here.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 25 March 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link
^^ otm. her singing on "burns out at midnight" and "crimes of the heart" - best in her career
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:41 (two months ago) link
"365" too
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:45 (two months ago) link
Crutchfield should cover this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wPqaUMlkE
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2024 15:33 (two months ago) link
Female-fronted country rock is having a moment, huh? Alternative/Indie's got Wednesday, Ratboys, Waxahatchee, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Big Thief. Pop's got Kacey and now even Beyonce. Thrilling time to be a fan.
― Indexed, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:02 (two months ago) link
Plus all the Margos and Maggies and Morgans, etc
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:24 (two months ago) link
Can't find a reasonable explanation for why this hasn't clicked with me yet
"Right Back to It" is a massive tune, but the rest of the album---I'm still waiting
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:51 (one month ago) link
Damn Wynonna Judd and Lucinda Williams both came out for the encore last night at The Ryman. Judd did "Love is Alive" and Williams did "Abandoned". Videos here:
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-waxahatchee-bring-out-lucinda-williams-wynonna-judd-mj-lenderman-in-nashville/
― Indexed, Thursday, 2 May 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
xp not "Bored"?
― Indexed, Friday, 3 May 2024 14:24 (one month ago) link
I like 'Bored '!
I like all the songs tbh, it's just not on constant repeat the way Saint Cloud was
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 May 2024 18:19 (one month ago) link
looks like she also covered "Side of the Road" recently, I would've died
― willips brighton the quorners (geoffreyess), Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:49 (one month ago) link
saw her for the first time since 2018 and the setlist is now entirely Tigers Blood/Plains/Saint Cloud, was like seeing a whole new (still great) Waxahatchee
― willips brighton the quorners (geoffreyess), Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:50 (one month ago) link
I get Katie Crutchfield's Substack unsolicited for some reason...The heading on today's email was "I know he's crazy but he's the one"--swear to god, I thought it was going to be an RFK Jr. endorsement.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:05 (three weeks ago) link
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEGTlVNDeg
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 04:45 (three days ago) link