Perry Maybrown

Members of Waxahatchee — Keith Spencer on drums alongside singer/guitarist Katie Crutchfield and guitarist Kyle Gilbride, along with bassist Sam Cook-Parrott (not pictured) — treat the Cat in the Cream audience to their folk-punk sound. The band came to Oberlin last Saturday night with sister act Swearin’, a hardcore punk band fronted by Katie’s twin sister Allison. Both Crutchfields excelled at delivering straightforward, emotive vocals over raw blasts of distortion. Waxahatchee released its first album, ‘American Weekend,’ on Don Giovanni Records in 2012; its sophomore effort, ‘Cerulean Salt,’ came out a year later on the same label, topping the Official Record Store Chart in mid-July. Both albums have attracted the group a growing fan base drawn by their raw sound, which Pitchfork described as having “the lo-fi lyrical appeal of early Elliott Smith or Cat Power.”