I'm a pretty big Waxahatchee fan. Katie Crutchfield's songs and albums have been all over my best-of lists and I've been lucky enough to cover Waxahatchee shows at The Opera House in 2018 and Lee's Palace in 2017. This past week I got to witness Waxahatchee's Toronto Saint Cloud tour stop at The Danforth Music Hall.
I loved the mellower approach that Waxahatchee took to the feel of this year's show. We heard tunes from albums with bigger, more distorted sounds, and they came across wonderfully at this show, too. Of course, Waxahatchee songs can stand on their own with stripped-down instrumentation; they're such strong songs.
Highlights of the set for me were "Recite Remorse", "Hell", "Silver" (the lyrics of this song, especially the line "I went out in the storm and I'm never returning" were especially impactful to me over the past several years of personal upheaval), "Sparks Fly", "Peace and Quiet", "War", "La Loose" and "Fire". The encore featured another personal favourite in "Under a Rock". Check out the full setlist here.
Chicago's Ohmme opened up the show with a set of ambitious and intricate music. Check out my photos and some tunes here.
"Fire" from Waxahatchee's latest, Saint Cloud
"Silver" from 2017's Out in the Storm
"Under a Rock" from 2015's Ivy Tripp