NEW YORK (AP) — For the recently converted Waxahatchee fan, Alabama-raised singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield does not drum up the image of distorted riffs, scrappy lo-fi recordings and indie rock sensibilities. For many years, though, that was her reality. (Incisive, lyrical self-reflexivity and emotional acuity have always been present in her work, now delivered in a familiar twang via her idiosyncratic folk style.)

Long before her 2024 album “Tigers Blood” or 2020’s “Saint Cloud” cemented Crutchfield as a leading voice in contemporary Americana, Waxahatchee more closely followed in the tradition of her early power punk-pop bands, P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana. Those were led by her and her twin sister, Allison Crutchfield, also of the influential indie-punks Swearin’. It is impossible

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