"fire" is equally good. st. cloud is just a tremendous album.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
her best
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 September 2020 17:08 (four 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 (four years ago) link
it's a hard won "brightness" though. doesn't feel trite.
― treeship., Monday, 7 September 2020 21:33 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
and the lilacs drink the waterand the lilacs dieand the lilacs drink the watermarking the slowslowslow passing of time
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 7 May 2021 06:53 (three years ago) link
I've really never listened to this band, but every time I came across a song, either in the wild or on shuffle or on some playlist, I've thought it was lovely. So tonight I played them for the first time (on shuffle) and boy, it's all so great. But it went through this particularly captivating streak of songs, first a cover of "Country Roads" (lovely), then Big Star's "Thirteen" (always lovely), then their own "Fire" (incredible) and then "Streets of Philadelphia," which killed me dead.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 May 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
she is an exceptionally good songwriter. "fire" is unbelievable.
― treeship., Thursday, 20 May 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
fuck me American Weekend is nine years old already
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 20 May 2021 06:00 (three years ago) link
i love saint cloud, it’s fucking good as hell
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
I was just lukewarm on Waxahatchee all these years and lost track of her output a while ago, but was convinced to check out St. Cloud when it started showing up on various EOY lists. Easily one of my favorite albums of the last 2-3 years.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
Saint Cloud is great, but I think American Weekend is still unsurmountable masterpiece.
― braised cod, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
exactly same, pgwp
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
i'd probably need to give em all a listen again but I think Out of the Storm is my favourite, though about half the tracks on Cerulean Salt are downright friggin amazing
I really like Saint Cloud but it sort of fell off my listening rotation. Fire is amazing, but -- and this is more of a personal preference than a genuine criticism -- I find I cant relate to the warm vibe of it that much? maybe i just need to brighten up, but the angst and tension in her previous records are what really grab me.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 15 October 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
also, katie is one of the few artists whose autograph I have and I take pride in that. (an autographed copy of ivy tripp from 2015, specifically). but ah, asking an artist for an autograph is such an awkward experience.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 15 October 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
I thought she was hella boring for years. Then Saint Cloud impressed me. At Pitchfork she made me hear how many of those songs are variations on "Sweet Jane" chords to my ears.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
I fiercely love every one of her albums. St Cloud is the least melancholy. There is hard won hope in it.
― treeship., Friday, 15 October 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
New album coming under the name Plains, a duo with Jess Williamson. First song is great.
https://www.stereogum.com/2194397/plains-katie-crutchfield-jess-williamson-problem-with-it/music/amp/
I’m not familiar with Williamson, so giving her most recent solo album a spin.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
that's a great little song, thanks for the heads up
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 July 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
My fanboy love for Waxahatchee coupled with my unfamiliarity with Jess Williamson is making it hard to get into the new Plains album. The non-Waxahatchee songs are fine but I have an urge to hit the skip button each time. I know I’m being unfair but I haven’t gotten over that feeling yet
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 15 October 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah. Same.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
«Swan Dive» still kills me on the reg
― Mule, Monday, 24 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Yay she's back! I was immune to the Jess Williamson and Plains stuff, and honestly to Waxa pre-Saint Cloud, but Saint Cloud is one of my favourite records of the decade.
Excited to hear this new one - the instrumentation's a bit formulaic, but love the sound of her and MJ Lenderman's voices on the first single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhERWJw
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:55 (eight months ago) link
YesssssssSt. Cloud is my favorite album of the decade so far. Four years later I’m still not tired of it. New one sounds great.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:19 (eight months ago) link
St. Cloud rules. This is good, too.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:30 (eight months ago) link
Her Substack is emailed to me, which is weird--I never signed up for anything. I bought something from Bandcamp once, maybe they take your e-mail from there and just send it to you.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:50 (eight months ago) link
As Josh In Chicago indicated upthread, the Deluxe Saint Cloud is great, and my gateway, and Plains was worth the few replays it took me to get it (now I get Plains lyrics/stance-wise better than some of Saint Cloud, despite her song-by-song explanations to Pitchfork, but that's just lyrics, the music was never a problem on either alb) Go MJ!
― dow, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 03:44 (eight months ago) link
I got chills from that, she leans into the melody like it's nothing at all
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 03:54 (eight months ago) link
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― Indexed, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:05 (eight months ago) link
lol CD version already sold out
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:14 (eight months ago) link
holy shit, that song.
i wonder if Jake sings backing vocals on the whole album?
― alpine static, Friday, 12 January 2024 06:58 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKDEpytxlw
fantastic
― ivy., Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:05 (seven 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
pgwp otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:42 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
well, what's it gonna taaaaaaaaaaaaake
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:16 (six months ago) link
The Tigers Blood title track has marvelous lyrics.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:37 (six months ago) link