Katie Crutchfield aka Waxahatchee will release her new album Tigers Blood on 22 March through ANTI-. The follow-up to 2020’s Saint Cloud is previewed by lead single “Right Back To It”, which finds Crutchfield dueting with MJ Lenderman, who also provides guitar.
Crutchfield says of the song: “I wrote it backstage at Wolf Trap when I was on tour opening for Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow. I’m really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic. I wanted to make a song about the ebb and flow of a longtime love story. I thought it might feel untraditional but a little more in alignment with my experience to write about feeling insecure or foiled in some way internally, but always finding your way back to a newness or an intimacy with the same person.”
The song’s twanging guitar and gentle lope suggests a humid atmosphere – enhanced by the boat trip seen in the video – and this perfectly accompanies Crutchfield’s words about love and moving through the motions of a life shared. Crutchfield paints her paranoia in lines like “you come to me on a fault line” and “I get ahead of myself / bracing for a bombshell”, but she finds the solace she needs in her long-term lover: “I’ve been yours for so long we come right back to it”, she sighs; “you just settle in like a song with no end”. Crutchfield’s voice is perfectly pitched; a cry for companionship that resounds across the swamps and is tempered by the warmth of her partner, played perfectly here by MJ Lenderman. “Right Back To It” is a simple but resounding ode to the privilege and perseverance of long-term romance.
Watch the video for “Right Back To It”, directed by Corbett Jones & Nick Simonite, below, or find the track on streamers.
Waxahatchee’s new album Tigers Blood will be out on 22 March through ANTI- (pre-order/save). You can find her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
She has also announced these tour dates:
April 18 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater ^
April 19 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre ^
April 20 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed ^
April 21 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre ^
April 23 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall ^
April 25 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place ^
April 26 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre ^
April 27 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre ^
April 28 – Richmond, VA – The National ^
April 30 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ^
May 1 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ^
May 3 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ^
May 4 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theater ^
May 5 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
May 6 – Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre ^
May 8 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom ^
May 9 – Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall ^
May 10 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater ^
May 11 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
May 13 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
May 14 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park ^
May 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
May 17 – Paso Robles, CA – Barrelhouse Brewing Co. ^
May 18 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^
May 19 – Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
May 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot ^
May 23 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom ^
August 19 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall %
August 21 – Fort Collins, CO – Washington’s %
August 23 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
August 24 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee %
August 25 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden %
August 26 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall %
August 28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
August 29 – South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Summer Stage &#
August 30 – Portland, ME – State Theater &#
August 31 – Accord, NY – Arrowood Farms &#
September 1 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage &#
September 6 – Vienna, VA – Filene Center – Wolf Trap &#
September 7 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore #@
September 8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore &+
^ w/ Good Morning
% w/ Tre Burt
# w/ Tim Heidecker
& w/ Snail Mail
+ w/ Greg Mendez
@ w/ Gladie
