Cerulean Salt - Waxahatchee
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82 out of 100

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8.6 out of 10

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  • Summary: The second full-length release for former P.S. Eliot singer Katie Crutchfield includes backing from Swearin' members Keith Spencer, Kyle Gilbride, and her twin sister, Allison Crutchfield.

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  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
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  1. Expert Witness (MSN Music)
    Mar 26, 2013
    91
    Sometimes we believe we care, what happens in the tuneful drywall of her shambling dreams.
  2. NOW Magazine
    Mar 14, 2013
    80
    These songs, short and sparsely arranged, are more fragile. Crutchfield’s hardly beautiful, unadorned singing helps this idea along, and the ways she uses her voice introduce a complicating factor: confidence.
  3. Magnet
    Apr 16, 2013
    80
    Musically and lyrically, she shares more with Barbara Manning and John Darnielle, able to tell affecting late-night confessionals with sharp attention to detail and very little drama. [No. 97, p.61]
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  4. All Music Guide
    Mar 18, 2013
    80
    The stories of grim wedding scenes, hospital visits, and the various disappointments of daily life are all harrowing and intense, but Crutchfield's deft arrangement of lyrical details and their slow-release impact keeps the darkness from ever coming off as self-indulgent.

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  1. jyo_tirmaya
    9
    This album has all of the sounds of a classic rock album. I'm not a "critic" critic, but I know the sound of a great album when I hear it. (In fact, this one is just as good as LIz Phair's "Exile in Guyville" if not as long.) Intelligent and honest lyrics, good acoustics and singer Katie Crutchfield's vocals and persona all work for an enjoyable listen that will keep me raving to it many times over.… Expand

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