Waxahatchee, Palehound, Outer Spaces

On Katie Crutchfield’s fourth album as Waxahatchee, she sustains emotionally raw songcraft with full-band energy and breakup-themed bite. Out in the Storm lends rock weight to her trademark narratives. The Alabama-raised singer tours with her twin and past P.S. Eliot counterpart Allison Crutchfield. A pair of openers match Waxa’s soloist-turned-ensemble origins with wispy crooner Ellen Kempner as bass-y pop number Palehound and Baltimore’s peachy rock Outer Spaces led by Cara Beth Satalino.