Indie darling turned bona fide star Waxahatchee returns to Australia later this month.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Something settles over you when you listen to Waxahatchee. It’s always been there, carried on the wind in Katie Crutchfield’s voice since her debut,, in 2012. But where there were once knots and static and tension braided through the revelatory moments, there’s more recently been calm, an exhale, a loosening of anything that has a tendency to tighten or constrict.
“I feel like people don’t talk about trying to prioritise being happy … It’s all about ambition and reaching the next milestone,” says Katie Crutchfield, now 35.Being stretched thin to the point of snapping, then recovering from the emotional ricochet that follows, is a sentiment that pervades her work. Given her schedule recently – touring in support of“It’s definitely a practice and it’s something I’m really disciplined about,” she says.
‘Earlier in my career there was a lot of second-guessing or fear ... I learnt I was just trying too hard.’, released at the onset of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. Crutchfield grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to the US East Coast as a teenager, chasing a music career and a new identity. All that tension and difficulty came with it. But a return to the South – both literally and sonically – brought her songwriting a new dimension that’s been as vast as the landscapes around her.
When the world opened back up, Crutchfield found bigger stages and audiences were waiting for her. The indie songwriter who’d come up playing tiny clubs and DIY spaces was a bona fide star. And on her next record,, released earlier this year, she kept the windows drawn, dug deeper and got to know herself even better. In May, while touring the record, she performed at the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
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