Waxahatchee – American Weekend (Red Vinyl)

Katie Crutchfield, under the name Waxahatchee, made her debut album during a snowstorm in the winter of 2012. She dedicated it “to anyone who had woke up and realized their identity is blurry, has had to clumsily get to know themselves, has hit a bottom, has felt self-deprecating and vagrant, and to anyone who has ridden out a shitstorm.” She called it American Weekend. She means “American Weekend” in the same wide way that Kurt Cobain means “Teen Spirit,” less social construct than natural phenomenon. This is a lo-fi masterpiece in the league of Lou Barlow and the Softies. We should consider it a descendent of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, or else temper it no lower than Essential Listening.

Tracklist
A1. Catfish
A2. Grass Stain
A3. Rose, 1956
A4. American Weekend
A5. Michel
A6. Be Good
B1. Luminary Blake
B2. Magic City Wholesale
B3. Bathtub
B4. I Think I Love You
B5. Noccalula