Waxahatchee - 'Right Back To It'
Waxahatchee returns with single Right Back to It, announces new album Tigers Blood.
Indie-Americana sensation Waxahatchee, aka Katie Crutchfield has finally returned with a new single, and announced her sixth studio album Tigers Blood, arriving 22 March.
Born and raised in Alabama, now based in Kansas City with boyfriend and fellow artist Kevin Morby, Crutchfield released her debut album as Waxahatchee in 2012, American Weekend. She was compared to indie-rock artists of the nineties, such as Liz Phair.
In spring 2020, at the height of the pandemic and during worldwide lockdowns, she released Saint Cloud, an album that went in an entirely new direction to anything else she’d put out so far. Inspired by Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris, Crutchfield decided to go back to the music of her roots. Saint Cloud is a record that showcases the full range of her talent as a musician and songwriter, Americana at its best. If Right Back to It is anything to go by, we are promised yet another masterpiece of an album.
Opening with a wonderful, melodic electric guitar backed by banjo, you’re instantly drawn into the world of the song, and listening to it feels like you’re inside a glorious summer’s day, which is even more welcome as it’s January and freezing.
Crutchfield’s vocals come in, and they are as arresting and captivating as ever, especially during the chorus when she hits the falsetto. Featuring on the song is Crutchfield’s friend MJ Lenderman, who’s voice compliments hers perfectly, creating harmonies that are sweet, delicate, and layered.
Her songwriting is as strong as ever too, self-aware, and observational. “But you come to me on a fault line/Deep inside a goldmine” she sings.
Although the track is undoubtably rooted in Americana, there are hints of bluegrass present with the harmonies and banjo, echoing folk too.
“I get ahead of myself/Refusing anyone’s help” she delivers in the pre-chorus.
Right Back to It is a song that I didn’t want to end, one that I will have on repeat until 22 March when Tigers Blood arrives. May the time fly by.
Words by Lucy Skeet
