Waxahatchee Announces <i>Early Recordings</i> Reissue

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Last year, Waxahatchee released the album Ivy Tripp. They have now announced a new reissue collection Early Recordings. Out June 17 via Merge Records, it contains some of Katie Crutchfield’s first songs for Waxahatchee; they were previously released on a 2011 split cassette. It will be available digitally and on cassette. Check out the tracklist, cover art (by Chelsea Dirck), and Waxahatchee’s upcoming tour schedule below.

Crutchfield has made the song “Home Game” available now for $1, via The Spark Mag. All proceeds for the track will go to DIY PHL’s event First Time’s the Charm. The annual gathering “encourages inclusion and diversity in the music community by actively soliciting the participation of women, queer-identified folks, transgender people, people of color, and musicians playing a new instrument or in a band for the first time.” Purchase “Home Game” here.

In a press release, Crutchfield explained why she is re-releasing these songs now:

They came out five years ago as a super limited split cassette that was mostly for friends and family, and truth be told, I had largely forgotten about them until this spring while on a solo tour of the West Coast. At first I was tentative about re-listening to these recordings, but the nostalgia I felt when re-hearing them was warm, and I thought it might be nice to make them available again.

Read our feature, “Pull the Thread and Unravel Me: Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield.”

Early Recordings:

01 Black Candy
02 Clumsy
03 Home Game
04 Sister Saint
05 Whiskey + Math 

Waxahatchee:

06-03 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer ^
06-06 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
06-07 Asheville, NC - The Mothlight *
06-09 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-10 Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5 *
06-11 Birmingham, AL - Saturn *
06-13 Oxford, MS - Proud Larry’s *
06-14 St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway *
06-15 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
06-16 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club *
06-17 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon *
06-19 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *
06-20 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme *
06-21 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom *
06-22 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club *
07-07-09 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Gridlock Festival %

^ with Hop Along
* with Allison Crutchfield
% Katie Crutchfield solo performance

Watch Waxahatchee play “La Loose” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:

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