Bonny Doon is my backing band on this record and for the next tour. St. Lilacs 5. My songwriting jumps around on a spectrum from very literal to very abstract or poetic, and this one is more poetic. “You take it just like a man, babe/Scathing at the first sign of pain.” I found this lyric interesting for its kind of declaration that weakness is a male quality when it is typically associated with women. The imagery of a coven of witches came to mind; there’s a darkness to it, because we’re bonded by shared frustrations. This song name-drops several people. Everybody has stuff that is always coming back around, and you have to find the tools to repair yourself.”. I always liked the name, and I thought it would be a nice way to honor my dad. That was one of the big moments where I was like, “Bonny Doon is my band.”. In not fighting with my melodic tendencies or my more traditional-sounding voice, I feel like I’ve returned to form on this album. “Can’t Do Much” I love that this is a very unsentimental love song.

War 9. There’s a lilac bush in my front yard in Kansas. St. It’s a reminder that none of us are ever done doing work. Feeling like I’m not of this time, or that I don’t belong in this world—being frustrated about social media, or the music business, or politics—but then having close friendships with people that relate to me in that, and leaning on them. The first part is the high, being up in the air and living dangerously, but being free and happy. I have struggled, but not like this person did. It’s like these two brains meld for a while. How did that moment come to be?

I grew up on country music. The demo was so stripped down. And then the moment that any of us slow down, we lose our fucking minds. You’re never going to find people that are exactly the perfect fit to you in the way that you think you need. I always saw it as the beginning of the story, which is the decision to start taking better care of myself. Forcing myself to slow down was the first step. I wanted to communicate a struggle but have it feel hopeful and big and beautiful. It’s a suburb right outside of Orlando.

The way I visualize this song is that the world is frozen and me and all of my closest friends are running around acting crazy. It’s about someone I have known for a very long time who struggled badly with addiction. As I did that, I was able to start doing all that people do to take care of themselves, from eating better and exercising to big things like therapy. I probably just had a bad interaction with a man. Cloud Lyrics: When you get back on the M train / Watch the city mutate / Where do you go when your mind starts / To lose its perfected shape? On this song, you seem to be examining your past self as a means of coming to terms with your current place in life. Saint Cloud is the fifth studio album by American indie rock act Waxahatchee, released on March 27, 2020 by Merge Records. It’s in my DNA.

So I held onto the thoughts, and when we stopped, I wrote them all down.

The ending is beneath the surface, six feet underground. A lot of the songs are about an internal fight with myself. If I had been alone, I would have sung the words into my phone, but Kevin [Morby] was with me, and I was a little afraid of introducing another person into what was happening in my mind. CN Entertainment.

She’s almost nine years sober and talks about that a lot in her work. I was captivated by the line, “To possess something arcane, oh it’s a heavy weight.” Is this one about your relationship with music? It’s the sad inevitability of that story. While suggesting that the "recovery songs" toward the album's end recount life experiences not relatable for the average listener, he applauded Crutchfield's performance through the opening series of "love/relationship/self-knowledge songs", with "her guitar parts echoing readymades so approximately and unaffectedly they sound fresh all over again, her soft voice so casual and personable and smart".[8].

Pitchfork: Why open the record with this track? This song goes to many different places, literally and emotionally.

Just like “Oxbow” was always first, “St.
You start the song seemingly in the middle of a thought: “That’s what I wanted.” What are you referring to? I was writing this melody and singing to myself about what I was literally looking at, which was these flowers beginning to wilt and die. Even though I’m having this moment of reckoning with myself, I do have to remind myself that I’ve made a lot of progress, and it is getting easier. I had a really shitty day, where a lot of my codependency stuff was bubbling up. It’s when I wrote Cerulean Salt, and when I was struggling with a lot of the stuff I’m working through now.

Then the middle part takes you into the thick of the addiction: it’s truly dire, it’s life or death. Fire 4. The song ends with you repeating the phrase “I want it all.” What are you reaching for in that moment? I almost look at it as an apology. The people I name-check are Marlee, Lindsey, and Allison. I had gone back and forth a lot about my substance issues, and I woke up one day and said, “I’m done with this forever.” I went and got my own hotel room in Barcelona and started to work on music. It’s not a straight line. To me, that line captures all of that. I love that this is a very unsentimental love song.

I remember thinking, “This is the beginning of a new chapter of my life.” “Oxbow” tells that story in a loose and abstract way. It’s hard to talk about this record without talking about Lucinda Williams. The bit “I hover above like a deity/But you don’t worship me” is about having this frustrating righteousness that you have to deconstruct in order to have any kind of happiness. Hell 7. Arkadelphia 10. So “The Eye” was sort of my song for Kevin and that element of our relationship. You sing “We are enthralled by the calling of the eye.” What does the eye represent? Since starting her first band alongside twin sister Allison as a teenager in Birmingham, Alabama, Katie Crutchfield has been touring nearly non-stop for well over a decade. It’s been nice for me.

“War” is about that constant struggle with the emotions and behaviors that come from being an addict or a codependent person. Intimate, like I’m talking to one person, while also sounding big. When I grew into an angsty teen and was starting my first band and discovering punk rock or the Velvet Underground, I rejected that music and my southern identity entirely. “Yeah, okay, I’m being a little bit insane right now but I’m so filled with emotion.”. All rights reserved. Friction-y juxtaposition is my favorite thing in songwriting. Ad Choices. The middle part is on the ground, and it’s this gritty, real-time friendship or love. I wrote the first half of that song in a hotel room in Portugal, shortly after the story told in “Oxbow.” The zoomed-out idea was always loosely inspired by Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song,” which is about being a songwriter. On September 7, Katie Crutchfield’s ever-shifting musical project Waxahatchee returns with the Great Thunder EP. It seems like you are having an internal struggle here, and you repeatedly acknowledge that “it’s got nothing to do with you.” Who is the “you”? I think that sentiment is true, and it’s something I have stepped into in the last couple years. Like my higher self singing to my inner child, or my lower self. After years spent writing brutally intimate songs about turbulent romances and gnawing anxieties, Crutchfield sounds clear-eyed in sentiment and sound on Saint Cloud, as the uncertainty of her 20s gives way to the self-assured perspective of her early 30s.
It feels like an anthem for self-acceptance and self-love. Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee, released 27 March 2020 1. I’m trying to find ways to say a lot without using that many words. All tracks are written by Katie Crutchfield. Cloud” comes from my dad’s hometown in Florida.


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