{"id":138083,"date":"2020-03-29T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/29\/waxahatchee-saint-cloud-review-fierce-and-ambitious-but-hard-to-love\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:00:56","slug":"waxahatchee-saint-cloud-review-fierce-and-ambitious-but-hard-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138083","title":{"rendered":"Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud review \u2013 fierce and ambitious but hard to love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Merge)Sobriety can smooth any artist\u2019s fuzzy edges. Named after the Alabama creek that runs behind her childhood home, Katie Crutchfield, AKA Waxahatchee, ditched alcohol for good before making her fifth album, Saint Cloud, which sees her sound leap from reverb-laden indie rock to glossy, radio-friendly country. But even though her work has become progressively hi-fi since her scratchy, Cat Power-like 2012 debut American Weekend, there\u2019s a sharpness in these songs that still unsettles.It\u2019s there in Crutchfield\u2019s vocals, louder and fiercer than before, and on songs such as Fire, which is also difficult to love. Her lyrics, tackling subjects including addiction and self-hatred, often feel too verbose, but they become surprising and refreshing on closer listen. Can\u2019t Do Much is an intense, jittery love song with a great opening couplet: \u201cWe will coalesce our heaven and hell \/ My eyes roll around like dice on the felt.\u201d Lilacs despairs of a girl who has harmful inner monologues (\u201cI run it like a silent movie \/ I run it like a violent song\u201d). Arkadelphia feels like a Bruce Springsteen narrative with its fires restoked for today\u2019s troubled thirtysomethings. This album has a bloodied, ambitious heart on its sleeve. It wants the world to hear it beating. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/mar\/29\/waxahatchee-saint-cloud-review\" target=\"_blank\">Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud review \u2013 fierce and ambitious but hard to love<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Merge)Sobriety can smooth any artist\u2019s fuzzy edges. Named after the Alabama creek that runs behind her childhood home, Katie Crutchfield, AKA Waxahatchee, ditched alcohol for good before making her fifth album, Saint Cloud, which sees her sound leap from reverb-laden indie rock to glossy, radio-friendly country. But even though her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}