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Alex Swhear Katie Crutchfield delivers the first words of “3 Sisters,” the first song on Waxahatchee’s sixth album, in a tentative hush, the sort that might precede either the very best or very worst number at your local talent show. “I make a living crying / It ain’t fair and not budging,” she sings, and a bit later, “All my life I’ve been running from what you want.” She is unfailingly earnest, but her words carry a piercing wit and candor.

American Football have announced a 25th anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut album – as well as a new covers edition featuring Ethel Cain, Blondshell and more. Find all the details below.The US band released the seminal ‘American Football’ (aka ‘LP1’) back in 1999, and followed it up with two full-length records of the same name: 2016’s ‘LP2’ and 2019’s ‘LP3’.Today (July 31), it has been confirmed that the group will drop a completely remastered version of ‘LP1’ – titled ‘American Football (25th Anniversary Edition)’ – on October 18 via Polyvinyl.The collection is set to be accompanied by ‘American Football (Covers)’, which sees a different artist take on each of the album’s nine tracks.

Waxahatchee has announced her latest LP ‘Tigers Blood’ and has shared the lead single ‘Right Back To It’.‘Tigers Blood’ will mark the sixth album released by the singer – real name Katie Crutchfield – and follows her 2020 LP ‘St. Cloud’. It also marks her first release under her new label home, ANTI-.A press release said that in this LP Crutchfield “emerges as a powerhouse – an ethnologist of the self – forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses” and sees her “arriving at revelations” and not holding them back.The majority of the songs were written during what the singer called a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022.

Waxahatchee has announced details of a new album. Katie Crutchfield will release Tigers Blood, her sixth solo project, on March 22.

Bon Iver bandleader Justin Vernon has shared ‘Hazelton’, a solo song he recorded between 2005 and 2006 that later served as a starting point for ‘Holocene’, a track from Bon Iver’s self-titled 2011 album.‘Hazelton’ and another song from that era, ‘Liner’, were originally released by Vernon on a small run of handmade CD-Rs in the mid-2000s, while he was still in his previous band, DeYarmond Edison.The two tracks were released on streaming platforms earlier this week. Both will appear on a comprehensive DeYarmond Edison box set titled ‘Epoch’ which is set to arrive later this year.

Suki Waterhouse somehow managed to make these First World Problems sound compelling at the first of two back-to-back shows in the intimate theatre space of Omeara. Backed by an all-female band, the 30-year-old model, actor and singer-songwriter earned a rapturous reception at this rare hometown show, and not just because most of her family were in the audience. Cooing languid lullabies and sultry torch songs in a breathy mid-Atlantic twang, she came over very much like Chiswick’s answer to Lana Del Rey at times.

Suki Waterhouse has announced details of her debut album ‘I Can’t Let Go’.The album, out on April 22 via Sub Pop, is being previewed today (January 26) by new song ‘Melrose Meltdown’, which you can hear below.The new song follows the release of the single ‘Moves’, the opening track on ‘I Can’t Let Go’, which was released last October.The album was produced by Brad Cook, who has worked with the likes of Bon Iver, Snail Mail and The War On Drugs.Watch Suki Waterhouse’s Sofia Malamute-directed video for ‘Melrose Meltdown’, and see the tracklist and artwork for ‘I Can’t Let Go’, below.1. ‘Moves’2. ‘The Devil I Know’3. ‘Melrose Meltdown’4. ‘Put Me Through It’5. ‘My Mind’6. ‘Bullshit On The Internet’7. ‘Wild Side’8. ‘On Your Thumb’9. ‘Slip’10. ‘Blessed’Speaking to NME last year, Waterhouse said that making an album was something she had been wanting “for so long” and decided to make now because she “had all these things I’ve never spoken about that I felt like I had to tie up before I go into my thirties”.