Waxahatchee shares ‘Bored’ the new single from her highly anticipated new album, Tigers Blood, out March 22nd on ANTI- Records. The song comes with a rollicking video shot at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas, directed by Corbett Jones & Nick Simonite.
Of the song Katie Crutchfield says: “I feel like my comfort zone when writing songs lies somewhere on the emotional spectrum of sadness and heartache. Writing from a place of happiness scares me. Too earnest. Anger scares me even more. I wrote ‘Bored’ about one of those situations where anger was called for and was the only authentic place from which to write about what I was experiencing. It was a challenge for me and ‘Bored’ is the end result.”
Waxahatchee announced Tigers Blood last month with a video for ‘Right Back to It‘, which Pitchfork named Best New Track, and The Guardian called “a gorgeous, unshowy example of Katie Crutchfield’s genius.” On the album, Crutchfield emerges as a powerhouse – an ethnologist of the self – forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses. Tigers Blood also finds Crutchfield folding new collaborators into her world, with performances on the album by MJ Lenderman, Spencer Tweedy and Phil Cook as well as trusted collaborator/producer Brad Cook, whom she also worked with on her groundbreaking album Saint Cloud.
Crutchfield says that she wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during a “hot hand spell” while on tour in 2022. And when it came time to record, Crutchfield returned to her trusted producer Brad Cook and the Sonic Ranch in the border town Tornillo, Texas, a collaborator and place that also helped bring her sound to a groundbreaking turning point on 2020’s Saint Cloud.
1. 3 Sisters
2. Evil Spawn
3. Ice Cold
4. Right Back To It
5. Burns Out At Midnight
6. Bored
7. Lone Star Lake
8. Crimes Of The Heart
9. Crowbar
10. 365
11. The Wolves
12. Tigers Blood
Additionally, Waxahatchee announces a European and UK tour this Summer, expanding on the Tigers Blood tour’s previously announced US tour dates. EU tickets go on sale Friday, February 16th at 10am local time HERE. The dates are listed further below.
UK/EU tour dates:
July 11th | Amsterdam NL – Paradiso
July 12th | Köln DE – Gebäude 9
July 13th | Hamburg DE – Mojo Club
July 14th | Bruges BE – Cactusfestival
July 15th | Berlin DE – Festsaal Kreuzberg
July 17th | Schorndorf DE – Club Manufaktur
July 18th | Feldkirch AT – Poolbar Festival
July 19th | Sittersdorf AT – Acoustic Lakeside Festival
July 21st | Zurich CH – Bogen F
July 22nd | Paris FR – La Maroquinerie
July 24th | Brighton UK – Chalk
July 25th | London UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
July 26th | Southwold UK – Latitude Festival
July 27th | Manchester UK – New Century
July 29th | Leeds UK – The Leeds Irish Centre
July 30th | Glasgow UK – Queen Margaret Union
July 31st | Belfast UK – The Belfast Empire Music Hall
August 1st | Dublin IE – Vicar Street
Photo credit – Molly Matalon