“Last year's American Weekend, Katie Crutchfield's piercing debut as Waxahatchee, got passed around like a secret. Cerulean Salt, Crutchfield's second album, demonstrates newfound assurance, marking her as a new songwriting voice to reckon with.”
“Alabama guitarist Katie Crutchfield sings bruising punk ballads about hanging out with other miserable young people and waiting for the fun part to begin, while starting to get the horrible suspicion this might be the fun part. Live, her band does a fantastic punked-up cover of Paul Simon‘s “The Boy in the Bubble” – and on her superb second album, Cerulean Salt, her songwriting lives up to that le”
