Cloud For the second part of the song, I wanted to find a place in America that wasn’t totally Small Town, USA, but also wasn’t super recognizable. It could go in a million different directions, which was exciting.

“Can’t Do Much” I love that this is a very unsentimental love song.

Forcing myself to slow down was the first step. Somewhere in the midst of that I realized, “Oh okay here we go again, this is my trip that I’ve always been on.”, Then when I was writing the chorus, I was trying to find a way to make it hopeful, like, “It’s cool, this is part of life. “I am approaching everything in life with a softness, which I think is important to keeping myself in a healthy place.

Saint Cloud is the fifth studio album by American indie rock act Waxahatchee, released on March 27, 2020 by Merge Records.

I was writing this melody and singing to myself about what I was literally looking at, which was these flowers beginning to wilt and die. “You take it just like a man, babe/Scathing at the first sign of pain.” I found this lyric interesting for its kind of declaration that weakness is a male quality when it is typically associated with women. Were there any musicians that you turned to for inspiration? You always have your eye on the creative, and that’s the most important thing to any artist.

You sing “We are enthralled by the calling of the eye.” What does the eye represent?

It’s like these two brains meld for a while. “Yeah, okay, I’m being a little bit insane right now but I’m so filled with emotion.”. I was fighting with that over the course of several years and several records. "Waxahatchee – 'Saint Cloud' review: Katie Crutchfield embraces her Americana idols with stunning results", "Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud review – fierce and ambitious but hard to love", "Waxahatchee's 'Saint Cloud' Vividly Maps a Healing Path", "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50", "Waxahatchee Chart History (Top Americana/Folk Albums)", "Waxahatchee Chart History (Independent Albums)", "Waxahatchee Chart History (Top Alternative Albums)", "Waxahatchee Chart History (Top Rock Albums)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint_Cloud_(album)&oldid=976947643, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Album chart usages for BillboardIndependent, Album chart usages for BillboardAlternative, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 01:24. I was figuring out a lot of thematic things in this song, and I want it to feel that way—like we’re all getting comfortable. It’s about getting to a more grounded, centered, self-assured place. Bill [Lennox, of Bonny Doon] sings on that song. This song goes to many different places, literally and emotionally. I got sober in Barcelona. If we’re going to talk about the record, we have to talk about my sobriety. I’m trying to find ways to say a lot without using that many words. It takes more of a macro looking-down-at-the-world perspective, and is not hyper-focused on my own experience. That was really a sad story.”. They tried it out and Bill started singing along with me organically. St. All rights reserved. Feeling like I’m not of this time, or that I don’t belong in this world—being frustrated about social media, or the music business, or politics—but then having close friendships with people that relate to me in that, and leaning on them. It starts with this imagery of the South from my youth and conjures this innocence. You have to remember, I’m not angry with this other person, the person that I need to negotiate all these feelings with is myself. It’s been nice for me.

I was frustrated, angry, and pointing the finger at everyone but myself, and was writing this angsty song about it. The demo was so stripped down. You’re never going to have an answer.
Pitchfork: Why open the record with this track? That was at the heart of my approach to this song: “How do I write a love song that conveys the frustration that you can experience while still being totally smitten with somebody?”. I do love lilacs. With “Fire” and a few of the other ones, I knew exactly what they would sound like, but with “Lilacs” we literally had no idea.

Cloud Lyrics: When you get back on the M train / Watch the city mutate / Where do you go when your mind starts / To lose its perfected shape? It was a gut instinct. “In the past, I have been gunning for something at all times, and making compromises along the way. I wrote the first half of that song in a hotel room in Portugal, shortly after the story told in “Oxbow.” The zoomed-out idea was always loosely inspired by Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song,” which is about being a songwriter. The Eye 6.

To me, that line captures all of that. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20).

My bottom was very high, it’s not a dramatic story.

I had gone back and forth a lot about my substance issues, and I woke up one day and said, “I’m done with this forever.” I went and got my own hotel room in Barcelona and started to work on music. That was one of the big moments where I was like, “Bonny Doon is my band.”. I wanted to communicate a struggle but have it feel hopeful and big and beautiful.
It was a nice color to add to the palette of the song, especially since his voice is so beautiful and low. © 2018 Condé Nast. What do they represent and how do they relate to the title? [1], Waxahatchee frontwoman Katie Crutchfield described the album's main themes as "addiction and codependency". Being in recovery is very revealing. I almost look at it as an apology.

Yeah, it’s in Birmingham.

Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud review – the best album of the year so far 5 / 5 stars 5 out of 5 stars. But I like the idea of it: flowers die, time moves slowly. When I grew into an angsty teen and was starting my first band and discovering punk rock or the Velvet Underground, I rejected that music and my southern identity entirely. It feels like an anthem for self-acceptance and self-love.

You’re never going to find people that are exactly the perfect fit to you in the way that you think you need. I wanted to write a love song about being an artist and being with another artist, when you’re not collaborating, but you’re making stuff for each other and relying on each other’s feedback. I wanted to lean into what was weird, or left-of-center, about myself. I had to jump into that abyss, and let myself realign with the normal pace of life. Lyrics like “Real love doesn’t follow a straight line/It breaks your neck, it builds you a delicate shrine” feel grounded in your own life lessons.

It’s about another friend of mine who passed away from a drug overdose. I can’t even remember what inspired that line. I think that’s what love is about. I’ve written a lot of songs about him over the years, like “Brother Bryan,” from Cerulean Salt. I remember thinking, “This is the beginning of a new chapter of my life.” “Oxbow” tells that story in a loose and abstract way.

When I first started identifying myself as a music person when I was a kid, I was reacting to that music. I was driving from Birmingham to Kansas City, and the melody and lyrics came into my head right as I started driving through Memphis. The imagery of a coven of witches came to mind; there’s a darkness to it, because we’re bonded by shared frustrations. This song is so fucked up.

I was taken aback by the intensity of your self-reckoning here. It’s about someone I have known for a very long time who struggled badly with addiction. That was a moment of criticizing the act of self mythologizing that artists have to do. So it’s just relating to them, trying to connect, and almost feeling like you’re getting ready to say goodbye. When you’re on tour, all you want is to slow down a little bit. Can you elaborate on the lines “The myth won’t love you like no other, babe/The myth will always be fair-weather, babe”?

She emerged with Saint Cloud, the warm and twangy fifth Waxahatchee album, which she created with assistance from producer Brad Cook and Detroit band Bonny Doon. And if something didn’t sound just right, then we made it sound just right.”, “I started to reject the idea that you have to live your life clumsily and be a big mess to write anything that’s exciting or interesting,” she continues. The climax of this song took place there. The ending is beneath the surface, six feet underground. The bit “I hover above like a deity/But you don’t worship me” is about having this frustrating righteousness that you have to deconstruct in order to have any kind of happiness.

If I had been alone, I would have sung the words into my phone, but Kevin [Morby] was with me, and I was a little afraid of introducing another person into what was happening in my mind.

I didn’t do any of that on this record,” Crutchfield says. In the line “If I burn out like a lightbulb/They’ll say she wasn’t meant for that life/They’ll put it all in a capsule/And save it for a dark night,” are you referring to yourself? It was during Primavera 2018. Cloud” comes from my dad’s hometown in Florida. In not fighting with my melodic tendencies or my more traditional-sounding voice, I feel like I’ve returned to form on this album.

Marlee and I are on the same side of the war, and we’re talking to all the yous out there in our lives. It’s the sad inevitability of that story. My songwriting jumps around on a spectrum from very literal to very abstract or poetic, and this one is more poetic. All tracks are written by Katie Crutchfield. The first part is the high, being up in the air and living dangerously, but being free and happy.

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