Waxahatchee - Demo CS

Artist: Waxahatchee
Album: Demo CS

Release: 2011

Label: Plan-It X

Tracklist:

1. Sister Saint

2. Whiskey & Math

3. Home Game

4. Black Candy

5. Clumsy

Birmingham, Alabama’s Crutchfield sisters would be hard-pressed to write anything disappointing. Their recent lo-fi forays as Bad Banana, the articulate energy and angst of PS Eliot, hell, even their high school years in the Ackleys-- all these outfits are full of catchiness, integrity and an impressive pop sensibility that stays level-headed and never too polished.

Katie’s new solo project Waxahatchee is no exception. In this nice set of rawly-recorded songs, which make up one half of a split tape with Chris Clavin, her voice takes on a new sort of warmth. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with her previous work, songs like “Clumsy” seem more vulnerable, more wounded, even, than a given PS Eliot tune. “Sister Saint” should seriously be on the soundtrack to some great, yet-to-be-made movie about adolescence. “Whiskey & Math” reminds me of when ‘90s alternative bands like the Lemonheads or the Asexuals would write awesome acoustic songs. But what sonically ties the five tunes together, to my ears-- aside from the charming lo-finess of the recording quality-- is a feeling of simultaneous nostalgia and longing.

Early entry into my tops of 2011.  Just sayin’.

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-Asa