TIGERS BLOOD nominated for BEST AMERICANA ALBUM 2025. Waxahatchee, the project of Katie Crutchfield, receives her first GRAMMY® Awards nomination for Tigers Blood, her acclaimed new album out now on ANTI- Records.
Tigers Blood is one of 2024’s most critically lauded albums, landing on countless mid-year lists including The New York Times, the Associated Press, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone, who called Crutchfield “a master storyteller.” Promotion for the album included performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and CBS This Morning.
Tigers Blood Tracklisting
1. 3 Sisters
2. Evil Spawn
3. Ice Cold
4. Right Back to It
5. Burns Out at Midnight
6. Bored
7. Lone Star Lake
8. Crimes of the Heart
9. Crowbar
10. 365
11. The Wolves
12. Tigers Blood
Praise for Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
“A master storyteller fully aware she’s on a hot streak” – Rolling Stone
“Waxahatchee sounds more assured and potent than ever.” – NPR
“Carrying forth the Southern sound of Saint Cloud, Katie Crutchfield does it again. Her dazzling, piercing songwriting is perfectly in tune with the band behind her.” – Pitchfork, Best New Music
“It’s been a slow, gradual joy to witness Katie Crutchfield, the founder of Waxahatchee, come into her maturity as a songwriter across the past decade or so.” – New York Times
“Listening to her sixth solo album is as effortless and refreshing as wading in a river on a scorching summer’s day, with the Alabama native deploying her dreamy drawl and warbling falsetto like a songbird at dawn.” – Entertainment Weekly
“Waxahatchee, known for her gut-wrenching alt-country, demonstrates mastery of her craft on her sixth studio album, Tigers Blood.” – Associated Press
“Katie Crutchfield’s band follows its acclaimed 2020 album with a record of vivid, poetic songwriting and rootsy musical color…all a fan of her previous album could hope for, extending her hot streak as a songwriter while adding a few twists.” – Wall Street Journal
“It feels like Crutchfield is making the music that she was always meant to make… These songs seem like they have always been around, filled with details that will leave your head spinning and your heart wrenching.” – Stereogum
“Tigers Blood” functions as a seamless extension and advancement of the aesthetic Crutchfield perfected on “Saint Cloud”, her Americana masterpiece that stands as one of the few artifacts worth revisiting” – Variety
“Some of the best alt-country of the decade” – Paste Magazine
“Crutchfield is a singular talent and voice, and her new album, Tiger’s Blood, solidifies that status.” – GQ
“Crutchfield is just entering her prime” – UPROXX
“The 12 tracks boast effortless, near-flawless construction, over top of which Crutchfield delivers her abstracted, beautifully contradictory, poignant lyricism.” – Consequence
“[Tigers Blood] grows more magical with every listen, with infectious melodies that evoke a warm summer day in the South” – SPIN
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