Waxahatchee signs to Wichita & announces UK album release for July

Waxahatchee sign to Wichita and announce a UK release for the new album Cerulean Salt on 1 July 2013.
Listen to the sublimely disheveled ‘Brother Bryan’ here: https://soundcloud.com/wichita-recordings/brother-bryan

A headline London show at the Shacklewell Arms has been announced for 13 June, as well as supporting Tegan And Sara on their European tour.

Artist: Waxahatchee
Title: Cerulean Salt album
Label: Wichita
Release Date: 1 July 2013
Formats: TBC
Cat Number: WEBB375
Distribution: PIAS
Website: www.facebook.com/waxahatchee
www.twitter.com/k_crutchfield

‘Katie Crutchfield has a way of delivering a line so casually that it takes a half-dozen listens to fully realise how devastating it is… the work of a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous’ 8.4 Pitchfork
‘The nakedness of Crutchfield’s music is the source of both its confidence and its vulnerability’ 8.0 Spin
‘Rightly one of the most talked about artists at SXSW, for a tough but tender take on the singer-songwriter’ NME

Waxahatchee has announced the UK release of her already acclaimed album Cerulean Salt on 1 July 2013, via Wichita. Listen to the sublimely disheveled ‘Brother Bryan’ here: https://soundcloud.com/wichita-recordings/brother-bryan

2013 has already been a whirlwind of a year for the Alabama-born Katie Crutchfield, after the release of her second album under the moniker Waxahatchee last month in the US (on venerable punk label Don Giovanni) was met with immediate critical acclaim, earning ‘Best New Music’ and an 8.4 album score from Pitchfork as well as the ‘SPIN Essentials’ tag and continued support from NPR, among many others. This was followed by a very enthusiastically received string of shows at SXSW where she was singled out as one of the festival’s highlights by both local and international press, resulting in Wichita picking up the record for a worldwide release (excluding North America) this summer.
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Katie Crutchfield is a natural at writing confessional pop songs. 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 started these bands in high school, inspired by touring bands that would pass through Alabama, as well as a local community-run show space called Cave 9 where they both volunteered. The sisters 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 turns it up a notch and plugs 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 lies 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. Sounding like an instant classic from the get go, its songwriting recalls the rawness of early Cat Power, the introspective lyrics of Rilo Kiley and the indie fuzz of The Breeders.

Cerulean Salt was recorded with assistance from Crutchfield’s roommates: her drummer Keith Spencer and bassist Sam Cook-Parrot, as well as her sister Allison Crutchfield (of Swearin’) and Kyle Gilbride (of Swearin’, Big Soda).
Waxahatchee’s live show currently consists of a bassist and drummer, amping up tracks from her lof-fi debut album American Weekend into full-band affairs – a set that will arrive in the UK when Waxahatchee supports Tegan And Sara on their European tour in June, with a headline London show at the Shacklewell Arms on 13 June.

Waxahatchee UK Dates:
Sat 8 June Manchester The Ritz w/ Tegan and Sara
Sun 9 June Glasgow ABC w/ Tegan and Sara
Tue 11 June London The Troxy w/ Tegan and Sara
Wed 12 June Birmingham The Institute w/ Tegan and Sara
Thu 13 June London The Shacklewell Arms (Headline Show)
Mon 17 June Offenbach Capitol, Germany w/ Tegan and Sara
Tue 18 June Berlin Huxleys, Germany w/ Tegan and Sara
Thu 20 June Cologne E-Werk, Germany w/ Tegan and Sara
Tue 25 June Paris Le Trianon Hall, France w/ Tegan and Sara
Wed 26 June Amsterdam Paradiso, Netherlands w/ Tegan and Sara
Thu 27 June Brussels AB Club, Belgium w/ Tegan and Sara