On new single WAXAHATCHEE achieves musical maturity

Waxahatchee has been leaning steadily more country with each successive release since 2020’s Saint Cloud. And whether you count the 2022 collaboration of Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson, (which was under the artist name Plains) as Waxahatchee canon or not, it was certainly a giant leap into the country realm. Crutchfield has come a long way since PS Elliott and a long way from her first album under the Waxahatchee moniker, 2012’s American Weekend. But the newest single, a preview of an album featuring MJ Lenderman (of Wednesday and Indigo de Souza fame) shows a maturity in sound which surpasses