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Cerulean Salt

Waxahatchee

Cerulean Salt

Brooklyn's Katie Crutchfield releases her second album of alt.folk

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Don Giovanni
UK Release date
01/07/2013
US Release date
05/03/2013
  1. 10.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Cerulean Salt is cryptic, sweet, bruised and pretty much perfect
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 8.4 |   Pitchfork

    The work of a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous
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  5. 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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  6. 8.0 |   Time Out

    Indie sleeper hit in the making, but it could well be more widely appreciated than that
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Her potential seems boundless. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   Q

    A lot to take in but a lethally brilliant concoction. Print edition only

  9. 8.0 |   NME

    Truths rarely come as beautiful as this
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  10. 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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  11. 8.0 |   Spin

    The nakedness of Crutchfield’s music is the source of both its confidence and its vulnerability
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  12. 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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  13. 8.0 |   DIY

    One of US indie’s most vital and compelling voices
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  14. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    It’s a pure, sweet record
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  15. 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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  16. 8.0 |   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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  17. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A record that you’ll find yourself coming back to time and time again
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  18. 8.0 |   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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  19. 7.2 |   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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 7.0 |   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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  24. 7.0 |   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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  25. 7.0 |   Uncut

    The effervescent punk-pop of The Breeders is a touchstone. Print edition only

  26. 6.0 |   Clash

    Isn’t boundary breaking, but it possesses qualities enough to leave one charmed, if not consistently captivated
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A spokesperson for wearied souls, Waxahatchee leaves the rest of us intrigued but far from in love
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  30. 4.0 |   The Independent

    It's confessional solipsism, lacking the musical compulsion to make one care
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