{"id":6365,"date":"2025-10-31T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/snocaps-reviewed-meet-katie-and-allison-crutchfield-mj-lenderman-and-brad-cooks-americana-supergroup-151949\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:34:51","slug":"snocaps-reviewed-meet-katie-and-allison-crutchfield-mj-lenderman-and-brad-cooks-americana-supergroup-151949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/snocaps-reviewed-meet-katie-and-allison-crutchfield-mj-lenderman-and-brad-cooks-americana-supergroup-151949\/","title":{"rendered":"Snocaps reviewed: meet Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook\u2019s Americana supergroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"post-preview\">\n<p>Snocaps are a new band, but not really. They\u2019ve only been together a matter of months, and they\u2019ve just surprise-released their debut, but the two mainstays \u2013 twins Allison and Katie Crutchfield \u2013 have been singing together for most of their lives. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, they were active in the local DIY scene, forming their first band, The Ackleys, when they were in high school and only splitting up when the other members went off to college. They rechristened themselves P.S. Eliot in 2007, released two well-praised albums of earnest, anxious indie rock, then disbanded in 2011 when they simultaneously realised, with twin intuition, that they needed to go in different directions for a while.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content google-ld-json\">\n<div class=\"editable-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-3d\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.kelsey.co.uk\/subscribe\/uncut-magazine?offer=xmas25&amp;source=xmas25bs&amp;channel=brsite&amp;utm_source=brand&amp;utm_medium=brand-site&amp;utm_campaign=uncut-xmas25-uncut-bannerads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click here and subscribe to Uncut<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Snocaps are a new band, but not really. They\u2019ve only been together a matter of months, and they\u2019ve just surprise-released their debut, but the two mainstays \u2013 twins Allison and Katie Crutchfield \u2013 have been singing together for most of their lives. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, they were active in the local DIY scene, forming their first band, The Ackleys, when they were in high school and only splitting up when the other members went off to college. They rechristened themselves P.S. Eliot in 2007, released two well-praised albums of earnest, anxious indie rock, then disbanded in 2011 when they simultaneously realised, with twin intuition, that they needed to go in different directions for a while.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snocaps - Snocaps (Full Album Stream)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLJ7QPuvv91JsDR64TQtmQ6-F_U7nMz4Xh\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Allison quickly formed the scrappy indie-rock group Swearin\u2019 and released an atmospheric, grief-addled solo album in 2017. Her sister Katie started releasing albums as Waxahatchee, her stormy guitar rock gradually transforming into musically graceful, emotionally thorny indie country. The sisters have performed together sporadically during the last 14 years, briefly reuniting PS Eliot in 2016 and performing a festival set in 2023 called \u201cKatie And Allison Crutchfield Sing The Songs They Loved At 16\u201d. They were bound to make music together again at some point; they\u2019re family, after all.<\/p>\n<p>For Snocaps the sisters invited two new people to back them up. MJ Lenderman plays guitar and occasionally drums, and the fact that he does not sing will likely irk fans who loved the way his voice melded so fluidly with Katie\u2019s on Waxahatchee\u2019s \u201cRight Back To It\u201d. Brad Cook returns as a producer after helming the last two Waxahatchee albums, and he occasionally plays bass. On their self-titled debut, the new quartet forge a sound that draws on both sisters\u2019 past projects, but also adds new sounds and settings, which lends Snocaps its own personality even within their shared catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>They dig deep into \u201960s rock on \u201cHide\u201d, which sounds like The Velvet Underground backing The Shirelles. \u201cBrand New City\u201d has the jangly buoyancy of The Byrds, while the rest of the album draws heavily from Byrds acolytes like The Rain Parade and The Bangles, particularly on the bouncy \u201cOver Our Heads\u201d. Thanks to Lenderman\u2019s chiming guitars and the spry beats of whoever happens to be drumming, Snocaps sounds crisp, catchy, like the Paisley Underground was founded in the Deep South.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both Crutchfield sisters sound more comfortable in their own skin, more confident in their lyrics and vocals, as though bringing all those years apart to bear on the sessions. While they avoid making a big-statement kind of album, there\u2019s a casual quality to the music, a sense of simple joy and escape \u2013 a rejoicing in each other\u2019s presence. Of course their voices blend beautifully, just as they did in previous bands. Lenderman adds some punchy riffs and ominous textures to these songs (the distortion on \u201cHide\u201d sounds like Spanish moss hanging off tree branches), but both he and Cook give the sisters a lot of space. Their performances, especially their vocals, are the heart of every song here; whichever Crutchfield is singing lead, they lock into what in country circles is called blood harmony: that supernaturally close, intimate togetherness that presumably only immediate family can achieve. Often it\u2019s impossible to tell who is even singing, or if they\u2019re singing harmony or unison, which only makes the songs sound wittier, wiser, more wounded. It also suggests a heightened sense of camaraderie that extends to the listener, too, although with repeated spins each twin\u2019s own personality shines through: Allison penning the scrappier, catchier songs, Katie more prone to slower tempos and quieter moments.<\/p>\n<p>Snocaps doesn\u2019t constitute a reunion necessarily, but these songs do measure the distance both women have traveled in the last decade and a half. That\u2019s nowhere more obvious than on \u201cCoast\u201d and \u201cCoast II\u201d. The former opens the album, with Allison describing her pedal-to-the-metal approach to life that leads, in this case, to one of the most exuberant choruses either of them has set to tape. \u201cI could never just coast,\u201d they yelp together, and the moment is so celebratory that they had to recruit new people to sing along. The starkly lo-fi closer \u201cCoast II\u201d, on the other hand, sounds like a demo recorded ages ago, when they were just starting out: Allison singing the chorus, Katie strumming along, and some birds chirping in the trees. It\u2019s a surprisingly poignant set of parentheses for the album, an admission that they couldn\u2019t have made this album at any time in the past or by themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/reviews\/snocaps-reviewed-meet-katie-and-allison-crutchfield-mj-lenderman-and-brad-cooks-americana-supergroup-151949\/\">Snocaps reviewed: meet Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook\u2019s Americana supergroup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/\">UNCUT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snocaps are a new band, but not really. 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