Waxahatchee - 'Saint Cloud' out tomorrow via Merge

WAXAHATCHEE SAINT CLOUD OUT TOMORROW VIA MERGE RECORDS

Album Art Credit: Molly Matalon  Tomorrow, Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) will release her highly anticipated new album Saint Cloud, out March 27th worldwide. Critics are already hailing Saint Cloud as a career-defining album with Crutchfield's songwriting front and center. Please let us know if you'd like a download or stream and we are happy to send your way. Waxahatchee is also announcing new tour dates from her postponed spring tour. The new dates will see her on the road into the fall as well as festivals through the summer including Pitchfork and Newport Folk. All dates are listed below. ACCLAIM FOR SAINT CLOUD: "Her best album yet."  - Rolling Stone  "She sounds untethered to the past, newly centered, like she's got enough time to wander and enjoy the scenery along the way." - Pitchfork "The little frictions of a continuing relationship crest and subside and continue to smolder in "Lilacs"...It's an unhurried folk-rock tune, with a ticking two-chord vamp for verses, that has Katie Crutchfield examining every lingering slight and potential ambivalence while sizing up her own obsessiveness. Instead of a happy ending, there's a tentative reckoning." - New York Times on "Lilacs" "Clear-eyed self-reflection with the distortion dialed down... The first single pulses with palpable warmth and radiates self-acceptance." - NPR "Crutchfield's voice is more versatile than ever. Every enunciation feels purposeful, whether she's gasping and coming up for air or howling into the night sky." - Stereogum "The finest work of Crutchfield's career, both warmly inviting and bracingly cathartic, and one of the very best albums of early 2020." - UPROXX "The lead single "Fire" shows Crutchfield easing down the pace, uplifting the twangy country instrumentation, and definitively stepping away from her basement show roots, firmly embracing her status as a leader of the new generation of singer-songwriters." - The Key XPN "The lead track "Fire" embodies that sonically airy, lyrically direct approach. Minimal instrumentation carries the song's steady step, leaving a clearing for Crutchfield to vocally ebb and flow in her unique delivery." - Consequence of Sound  "Confessional lyrics and irresistible hooks." - Time Out  "Katie Crutchfield writes the sort of songs that immediately stop you in your tracks is as immovable a fact of life as the sun rising each morning." - Guitar World "Reminds me of Dylan." - SPIN "The track is as strong as it is vulnerable, with triumphant, quiet drums that serve as a battle cry for Katie Crutchfield's newfound determination in sobriety. Most notably, it's Waxahatchee's most direct pop song since Ivy Tripp's excellent "La Loose," a return to form with a distinctly modern, distinctly Crutchfield touch." - Paste  "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." - The AV Club  Purchase and stream Saint Cloud here.

TOUR DATES: 7.17.20 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival 8.1.20 - Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival 8.6.20 - Kansas City, MO @ Knucklehead's * 8.7.20 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway *! 8.8.20 - Waynesville, OH @ Bellwether Festival 8.9.20 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom * 8.10.20 - Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall * 8.12.20 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club 8.14.20 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes * 8.16.20 - Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry * 8.18.20 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall * 8.23.20 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater # 8.24.20 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church # 8.26.20 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery # 8.27.20 - San Francisco, CA @ The Castro Theatre # 8.28.20 - Los Angeles, CA @ First Congregational Church of Los Angeles # 8.29.20 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet's #^ 9.24.20 - Dallas, TX @ Sons of Hermann Hall 9.27.20 - Austin, TX @ Scholz Garten % 9.28.20 - Houston, TX @ The Satellite % 9.30.20 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West % 10.1.20 - Nashville, TN @ Exit In 10.2.20 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom % 10.4.20 - Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre % 10.5.20 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer % 10.6.20 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere %$@ 10.7.20 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere ~^ 10.9.20 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre % 10.10.20 - Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts % 10.12.20 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater % 10.13.20 - Detroit, MI @ MOCAD % 10.15.20 - Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center 10.16.20 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room 10.17.20 - Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Bar 10.18.20 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre % * w/ Fenne Lilly ! w/ Shady Bug # w/ Mirah ^ w/ Bonny Doon % w/ Ohmme $ w/ Radiator Hospital @ w/ Mac McCaughan ~ w/ Shamir