Track 26: Crowbar - Waxahatchee
You can take it pretty far on a prayer that's pale and synthetic...
Katie Crutchfield’s 2024 record Tigers Blood continues the trend of pushing her sound into alt-country flavors, and while it may not be as strong of a record as 2020’s Saint Cloud, it still features some of her sharpest songwriting to date.
Crowbar is a standout for sure, featuring a catchy chorus and well written lines. I’ll be damned what it’s about though. My guess is it’s relating that point in a relationship when tension starts to emerge, caused by the title tool in question bending hard, which Crutchfield admits is telekinetic.
Sometimes the biggest problems in a relationship are the ones people make up in their heads, convincing themselves their real. That’s what Crowbar sounds like to me, especially when Crutchfield admits that the issue at hand is “a stupid question, I’d rather not ask it.”
We’re at the point in the mix where dust has settled. The Rat has reappeared. We need to take stock and figure out what’s going on. There’s tension. Things are unsettled. And yet there’s hope, and we’re quite descending into the doom and gloom. Where do we go from here? We’re in for a rocky ride. But we’re going to be okay, friends. One step, one breath, one day at a time.
Keep listening. And be kind to yourself. The world is full of real demons. Don’t make up your own to torture yourself for no good reason.
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