In these purgatorial times, there is of course a deep-seated sardonicism in Waxahatchee revealing a track entitled Can’t Do Much, from her forthcoming Saint Cloud full-length; not least as it begins with a lyric concerning the coalescence of “Heaven and Hell.” Nevertheless, listen beyond the inauspicious, and while Katie Crutchfield’s latest may be inopportunely titled, it’s most welcome: musically, much like Fire before it, a vernal Americana warmth glows within the thing, while lyrically, it’s loved-up – “honey[ed]”, even – without veering into overly saccharine territories. Certainly closer to the divine than damned end of the spectrum, no question.

Saint Cloud is available from March 27^th via Merge Records, while Waxahatchee plays Islington Assembly Hall on June 27^th.