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Great Thunder
Singer-Songwriter · 2018 · 6 tracks · 17m

Great Thunder

Waxahatchee

Six tracks of stark, piano-led intimacy. A quiet reimagining of past songs that strips away the rock artifice to reveal raw, Southern-inflected vulnerability.

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It's just Katie and a piano in a quiet room, and it's honestly all you need.

A quiet, unadorned stillness that feels like a private conversation in an empty house.

Great Thunder · vs · Waxahatchee
Piano+2.9σ

The instrumentation foregrounds piano far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 17m
01
Singer’s No Star
3:58
02
You’re Welcome
2:50
03
Chapel of Pines
3:45
04
You Left Me With an Ocean
2:16
05
Slow You Down
1:48
06
Takes So Much
3:07
Moments Worth Waiting For
The stark, echoing piano chords on 'Singer’s No Star' that place the listener directly in the room with Katie Crutchfield.
The way her Alabama-inflected drawl cracks slightly on the high notes of 'Chapel of Pines' over a minimal arrangement.
The brief, haunting brevity of 'Slow You Down' which feels like a private thought caught on tape.
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