WAXAHATCHEE - American Weekend WAXAHATCHEE

Katie Crutchfield, under the name Waxahatchee, made her debut album during a snowstorm in the winter of 2012.She dedicated it “to anyone who had woke up and realized their identity is blurry, has had to clumsily get to know themselves, has hit a bottom, has felt self-deprecating and vagrant, and to anyone who has ridden out a shitstorm.”She called it American Weekend.She means “American Weekend” in the same wide way that Kurt Cobain means “Teen Spirit,” less social construct than natural phenomenon.This is a lo-fi masterpiece in the league of Lou Barlow and the Softies.We should consider it a descendent of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, or else temper it no lower than Essential Listening.