Cerulean Salt Turns 10

“This is the first record I ever made as a person who gets depressed,” Katie Crutchfield said a couple years ago, as she prepared to play through Cerulean Salt in full for a pandemic-era livestream. The Alabama-born musician had been writing and performing for nearly a decade in and around Birmingham before releasing her sophomore album as Waxahatchee, but Cerulean Salt was the first album that she made away from her hometown. “All of these songs are about my childhood and teen years,” she added a little later on. “And I feel like I’m just now realizing that I was really homesick when I wrote this.”