Waxahatchee: Ivy Tripp - review

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Ivy Tripp

(Wichita Recordings)

Katie Crutchfield's last album as Waxahatchee, Cerulean Salt, garnered comparisons to alt-rock icon Kim Deal and was praised by Lena Dunham, which is the US indie equivalent of winning a namecheck from Taylor Swift.

The attention hasn't gone to her head. Ivy Tripp has the same lo-fi feel as its predecessor, its songs mainly recorded in a rented Long Island house. Crutchfield describes them as being about "directionlessness", the sort of uncertainty experienced by 26-year-olds like her as they negotiate adulthood.

"I get lost looking up," she sings in her dreamy, Kim Deal-like voice; meanwhile fuzzy guitars form lazy contrails around her and the drummer keeps behind or in front of the beat, a slightly off-centre accompaniment. While it doesn't feel like there's much at stake, Crutchfield's idea of directionlessness being more a floaty indeterminacy than alienated ennui, the languid mood is attractively evoked.

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