Waxahatchee has announced a handful of European dates for January 2015, including London’s St Pancras Church on the 26th. This will be the first UK show in over a year, during which Katie Crutchfield has been busy recording the follow up to 2013’s critically lauded 'Cerulean Salt'.
Dates as follows:
January
26. London St Pancras Church
28. Paris L’Espace B
31. Brussels Botanique
February
01. Amsterdam Paradiso
04. Berlin Monarch
Since picking up the guitar as a teenager she has spent the better part of her young adult life travelling the country to play basement shows for feminist punks with bands like P.S. Eliot, Bad Banana and The Ackleys, all of which she sang for. Crutchfield and her twin sister Allison were best known as P.S. Eliot, a band that developed a cultish underground following until disbanding in 2011. Deciding to go it alone, Crutchfield became Waxahatchee and released her debut album 'American Weekend' in 2012 and its lo-fi acoustic guitar-pop songs made for one of the year’s best unsung records.
With 'Cerulean Salt', Crutchfield turned it up a notch and plugged in the guitar as well as adding a few band mates. A more accomplished and polished record, but no less intimate and affecting, the strength of Cerulean Salt lied in the simplicity and purity of its songs; a quality that ties them to millennial pop-punk, with melodies that immediately penetrate alongside Crutchfield’s frank vocal delivering devastating, straight-from-the-heart lyrics backed by lacerating guitars and slouchy basslines.
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