Watch the latest Waxahatchee "Lilacs" here.
Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has shared "Lilacs," the latest single and video from her highly anticipated new album, Saint Cloud, out March 27th worldwide.
“While the first single might be named after the most destructive classical element, the record’s sound generally shares more in common with air-it feels breezily triumphant, sometimes nearly weightless, like a burden has been lifted, even when it’s clear that weightlessness was hard-earned.”
Of the song, Crutchfield says: "'Lilacs' was the last song I wrote for the record and it's mostly just about obsessive/negative thought patterns. It's about backsliding into old behaviors that don't serve you and sort of letting your worst self get the best of you. I think that when people are in that mindset they can really try to turn the blame onto other people, so the song sort of plays out like a conflict you'd have with someone you love. It's meant to capture that moment of heat that happens right when you realize you're wrong or that your issue is more with yourself than with someone else - being flawed and fragile but making progress inch by inch. The chorus serves as a sweet little resolve. I wanted it to feel like the light at the end of the tunnel and the reminder that it can always and often does get better."
The video features dancer Marlee Grace, who tells us, "The first time I heard lilacs I knew I needed to dance to it. I know that dance and music and film all have the ability to bring people into their awareness of self and aliveness, creating this brought me into greater relationship with self and it is my hope that listeners and viewers experience this too."
Written immediately in the period following her decision to get sober, Saint Cloud is an unflinching self-examination. From a moment of reckoning in Barcelona to a tourist trap in Tennessee to a painful confrontation on Arkadelphia Road, from a nostalgic jaunt down 7th Street in New York City to the Mississippi Gulf, Crutchfield creates a sense of place for her soul-baring tales, a longtime staple of her storytelling. This raw, exposed narrative terrain is aided by a shift in sonic arrangements as well.
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4/17 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre *
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7/15 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
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