Now Playing… WAXAHATCHEE And Her Enchanting 10-Year Old Album ‘CERULEAN SALT’

5 March 2023

WAXAHATCHEE is the moniker of the wonderful Alabama songstress Katie Crutchfield
who released her 2nd praised album 10 years ago today, on 5 March 2023.

Pitchfork said: “Cerulean Salt, Crutchfield’s new album, is going to be heard. But from
its opening moments, you get the sense that she’s ready for it, the newfound assurance, steadiness, and clarity of her voice immediately obvious… It’s that blazingly honest, hyper-personal quality that places Cerulean Salt in the tradition of Elliott Smith, early Cat Power,
or Liz Phair’s free-flowing Girlysound tapes– the work of a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous.”
Score: 8.5/10.

Enchanting.

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WAXAHATCHEE: Instagram


8 years ago in Brussels


Assisted for some songs by her sister

Photos by Turn Up The Volume

NOW PLAYING – Brand New LP By Sheffield Blusterers BRING ME THE HORIZON

30 October 2020

Sheffield noise turbo BRING ME THE HORIZON unleashed their 7th longplayer called POSTHUMAN HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR  today. A raging wall-of-psych-out slam dunks. An unstoppable torrent of earsplitting clamor and in-your-face uppercuts. No mercy, no noise boundaries, no rest for the wicked.

Are you looking, besides The Cramps for a Halloween soundtrack to challenge your lockdown demons? Look no further, this is the perfect shit. A 2020 steamroller.

Top (horrific Halloween) single

Full album.
Arrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh…

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BRING ME THE HORIZON: Facebook

Emotive Singer/Songwriter ELLIOTT SMITH Passed Away In 2003 – Only 34

22 October 2020

It’s already 17 years – 21 October 2003 – since emotive singer/songwriter ELLIOTT SMITH took his own life. He was only 34. He was born in Ohama, Nebraska in 1969, but spend most of his life in Portland, Oregon.

After playing in a few bands he went his own way. He made 5 albums between 1994 and 2000. Now playing on my stereo is his final LP Figure 8. A varied, melancholic beauty…

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R.I.P. 

 

NOW PLAYING! New Album ‘AS LONG AS YOU ARE’ By FUTURE ISLANDS

On the stereo…

13 October 2020

Band: FUTURE ISLANDS (Baltimore)
Album: AS LONG AS YOU ARE – sixth LP
Released: 9 October 2020

NME: “The indie heroes spin thrillingly off the tracks
on a bruised album that exudes the brilliance of their
breakout 2014 song ‘Seasons (Waiting On You)’”

Enjoying the synth-pop symphonies

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FUTURE ISLANDS: Facebook

Samuel T. Herring in action… (photo by Turn Up The Volume!)