Ivy Tripp
by Waxahatchee

From benpaco 06/18/2015 23:26 | #144155 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

You ever come home and everything in your house is expired or needs to be cooked but for one loaf of white bread? So you take the bread out and you let it thaw and it's 1 in the morning let's say so you're very tired so after 10 minutes or so of letting this bread thaw and sipping on some flat-but-at-some-point-sparkling water because you were also very thirsty and you decide to microwave the bread. So you take this hunk of bread and put it in the microwave and wait a minute and take it out and it's sort of wet from where the ice was and you put it on a countertop and stare at this bread and wonder why you've gone through all that because you don't have any meat or cheese. So you pull out a toaster and find some butter that doesn't smell too off and you're peeling the paper off the butter and then you realize the butter is farther gone than you thought so you try to wrap it as best you can and throw it away. You walk back to the bread and realize you're out of your flat water and you sigh and walk over to the sink and get a glass of tap water and look at the microwave clock and it's been half an hour and you're just hungry and want to not be there. So you lay down across an old scratchy couch and turn the television down, because the television was on, because you were watching television before you left and had forgotten to shut it off. And the light glow and buzz of the TV just wash over you as you like there and think "huh, I really am hungry. Why don't we have cheddar? I could swear we had cheddar." So you unfurl from the couch and walk to the fridge and you open the drawer and there is no cheddar and you remember that you'd made some broccoli from a recipe online the other night and didn't have shreds so you just ripped up the slices overtop and then it wasn't even very good. What a waste of cheddar. So you close the fridge but then look back quickly because out of the corner of your eye you saw something, so you pull on the sticky old door and it unlocks and that light seems so bright right now but there, in the door of the fridge, is a mussel salad from god knows when. You've never even had mussel salad. You friend Mark whose wife Debby is oddly protective about what her children eat must have left it when Jean and Robert had come over to play. And you take out this mussel salad and you're smelling it and you don't think it smells bad but you don't really know what mussel salad is supposed to smell like, so you take it out and take off the plastic cover and you're looking and this mess of mussel guts and carrots and is that squid? Is it octopus? You're not really sure but you don't like how the suckers look at you. So you take a fork and you're moving all of these squids? and you're moving them to the corner and you look up and it's almost 2 AM now and you let out a sigh and look down and realize you don't even like mussels. You haven't had them in so many years you can't remember if you're allergic to them. So you shift everything over to the side with the octopus? and remember the carrot shards and carefully catch one between the tines of your fork and you bring it up and sniff it and it is the smell of actual toenail fungus but at least you're sure it's a carrot, or at least pretty sure, so you bite in and it tastes like pickles, or at least that's what you're telling yourself as you try to ignore the fairly strong flavor of lemon and is that ... cheese? You're going to tell yourself it's cheese while you try to tell yourself it's nothing at all and it's just pickles. Just pickles. And you turn around to the bread and you roll your eyes at the idea but you separate off a slice and they're still kind of stuck together because, if you remember, the bread was frozen not terribly long ago, but you get off two oddly soggy pieces and separate their semi-frozen bond. And then you go and make a soggy, weird, stuck, firm, pickled carrot sandwich with radishes you hadn't noticed mixed in with the carrots. And the time you spent on reading this was better spent and more entertaining than this album.

From HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/09/2015 04:28 | #154195 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I was apprehensive, since I really did not like Cerulean Salt. This is exactly the album I would've wanted from Waxahatchee. Well-written, full-sounding track after track. Dynamic and captivating across the board. Maybe not the most exciting record of the year, but solid through and through.

From Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/24/2020 08:15 | #259708 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Wow tough crowd

I’m going to buck the trend and say I love this album and this artist. Katie Crutchfields 3rd release has a maturity and sensitivity beyond her years that hinted at a special artist destined for greatness who ultimately delivered on 2017’s ‘Out in the Storm’ and more so 2020’s ‘Saint Cloud’

‘Ivy Tripp’ rewards multiple listens and and only gets better with age

From zags7000 06/20/2015 08:51 | #144246 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I could see how this album doesn't click with everybody. For me I fell in love right away. I would advice anyone to at least give it a listen. You may fall in love as with the album and her as well.

Pretty enjoyable listen from start to finish, a great collection which mixes finger-blistering grunge and eloquent indie pop.