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Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood review – intimate Americana tackling life’s great tangle
Katie Crutchfield’s sixth album refines the breezy country of her 2020 breakthrough Saint Cloud and finds her as compelled by the complexities of life as its eases
From 2013’s rickety, wispy Cerulean Salt to Saint Cloud, her full-bodied shift to Americana in 2020, Katie Crutchfield has chronicled the ups and downs of existence in intimate but sweeping songs that needle at the point of it all. On Tigers Blood, she returns clear-eyed and spirited with a twisting country album of anthemic earworms that evoke long summer evenings, intimate chats and misty-eyed regret. The lyrical effect is a kind of mind maze: concentrate too hard and you’ll tie yourself in knots, but look at it out of the corner of your eye and it swims into focus.
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