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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the New York-based Alabama singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield was co-produced with Kyle Gilbride and Keith Spencer.
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  • Record Label: Merge
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Twee Pop
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It fogged up again My spotless exit So we walked two-by-two With tedious intent When I am gone, at least I won't be thinking I left you out like a... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. 91
    The inventive production and songwriting transform result in monolithic, almost sculptural works that rarely make more than half-hearted gestures to anything specific outside themselves.
  2. Apr 6, 2015
    85
    Ultimately, Ivy Tripp is the best record in Crutchfield's discography, but her rise is undoubtedly continuing. Where she will plateau remains to be seen, but she is already making her mark as one of America's premier songwriters and she shows no signs of stopping.
  3. Q Magazine
    Apr 2, 2015
    80
    The familiarity of Ivy Tripp breeds disquiet, rather than contempt, its surface cracking like thin ice, revealing its depths. [May 2015, p.115]
  4. Apr 7, 2015
    80
    Ivy Tripp cements that Crutchfield is better able to hone in on her fears and articulate emotional realities.
  5. Mojo
    Apr 21, 2015
    80
    Tripp is a complicated, slow-burning wonder that matches Cerulean Salt for fuzzy, bed-headed zingers but adds several layers of regret and self doubt and is all the more rewarding for that. [May 2015, p.95]
  6. Oct 2, 2015
    78
    Cat Power for the next generation.
  7. May 20, 2015
    50
    It can sound almost laborious in its structural directness mixed with its lyrical opacity.

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