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10.0
56250
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
Cerulean Salt is cryptic, sweet, bruised and pretty much perfect
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8.6
51926
8.6 |
Beats Per Minute
Cerulean Salt retains Cructchfield’s outstanding songwriting voice (pushes it further even) while giving the record a sonic immediacy that its predecessor lacked
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8.5
56323
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Crutchfield’s greatest triumph is making this piece of intensely intimate personal documentary feel like a reflection of universal experience: like a mixtape made just for you, by your closest friend
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8.4
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Pitchfork
The work of a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous
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8.3
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8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
What makes Cerulean Salt so enjoyable and so endlessly relistenable is that some of her snapshots likely resemble ones from your own lost photo albums
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8.0
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8.0 |
Time Out
Indie sleeper hit in the making, but it could well be more widely appreciated than that
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8.0
56252
8.0 |
Mojo
Her potential seems boundless. Print edition only
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8.0
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Q
A lot to take in but a lethally brilliant concoction. Print edition only
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8.0
56295
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NME
Truths rarely come as beautiful as this
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8.0
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8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Crutchfield’s grown the project into a full band while somehow maintaining its deeply personal core
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8.0
51925
8.0 |
Spin
The nakedness of Crutchfield’s music is the source of both its confidence and its vulnerability
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8.0
52331
8.0 |
All Music
Born of a punk aesthetic but drawn from a place so personal and inward that even the most tossed-off lines feel confessional
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8.0
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8.0 |
DIY
One of US indie’s most vital and compelling voices
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8.0
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8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
It’s a pure, sweet record
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
Buoyed by direct arrangements and simple, repetitious chord patterns, it is is the kind of sadness that you can get your teeth into
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8.0
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The Irish Times
Several attributes help Cerulean Salt stand out amid the glut of indie-pop albums vying for your attention. The confident, audacious and natural songcraft of Katie Crutchfield is a big one
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8.0
56567
8.0 |
musicOMH
A record that you’ll find yourself coming back to time and time again
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8.0
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State
The scruffy charm and purity of Hutchfield’s lyrics make this an affecting collection of songs that blows away any whiff of maudlin indulgence or by-the-numbers nostalgia
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7.2
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Paste Magazine
Some bands’ slightness reveals enough details in the sketches to endlessly pore over, but knowing Crutchfield is capable of great songs and that few here rise to the occasion is frustrating
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Proof positive that Katie Crutchfield is well on her way to becoming all she can be, an emerging artist who definitely possesses the skills and a point-of-view that you’ve either got or don’t
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7.0
51992
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Waxahatchee's production values may sound more grown up on Cerulean Salt, but the self-deprecating anxieties and quarter-life ennui still seeps from each song
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Sometimes she gets what she wants, but most times she doesn't. But she always gets a great song out of it
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7.0
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The Digital Fix
With some tough lyrical themes, this can be a challenging album but musically, it is worthy of your time and effort
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7.0
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FasterLouder
The musical nakedness of Waxahatchee is Cerulean Salt’s greatest asset, yet also the reason why it feels empty and shallow at times
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7.0
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7.0 |
Uncut
The effervescent punk-pop of The Breeders is a touchstone. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Clash
Isn’t boundary breaking, but it possesses qualities enough to leave one charmed, if not consistently captivated
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
Crutchfield's loosely autobiographical vignettes and gnomic aperçus are all coated in the burnt sugar of 1990s alt-pop; melodically inclined, grungily produced
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
There's not much playfulness here or, surprisingly, vulnerability: Crutchfield finds too much strength in sadness for that
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6.0
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Drowned In Sound
A spokesperson for wearied souls, Waxahatchee leaves the rest of us intrigued but far from in love
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Independent
It's confessional solipsism, lacking the musical compulsion to make one care
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