Waxahatchee releases a piercing new single titled ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ The track marks the first taste of new music from Katie Crutchfield since the release of her acclaimed 2024 album, Tigers Blood.
Additionally, Waxahatchee will be appearing on CBS Saturday Morning on October 12th, performing 3 songs from Tigers Blood. The show is set to air at 7 am EST and will be available for streaming starting at 8 am EST that day.
Earlier this month Waxahatchee performed album standout ‘Right Back to It’ at the Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards, where it was also nominated for Song of the Year. Tigers Blood had a nine-week streak at #1 on the Americana Albums Radio Chart and debuted at #1 and had a multi-week run topping the JBE Non-Comm Radio Chart.
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.” The album is out now via ANTI- Records.
ACCLAIM FOR TIGERS BLOOD:
“Tigers Blood is even more rugged and confident, 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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