Album Review: Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp


Posted March 25, 2015 in Music Reviews

Waxahatchee

Ivy Tripp

[Wichita]

Youthful aimlessness is supposed to be just that: without focus or direction. So why is it that Katie Crutchfield, on her third and most tonally diverse Waxahatchee album, manages to make getting lost such a purposeful feeling? The confessional guitar-pop sound of her previous work is kept broadly intact, but is frequently compacted, distended, or pulled way down-tempo, such that her songs can veer off in multiple directions at once, but always end up converging on some minor epiphany.

Words: Leo Devlin

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