Snocaps

In complicated times, a simple pleasure can feel more important than it’s meant to be. Certainly the news that Allison and Katie Crutchfield were going to make their first album together since the demise of P.S. Eliot, the DIY-punk band they’d formed as teenagers, could have been rapturously greeted by a substantial sector of the 21st-century indie-rock fandom. Add to that the revelation that this project was being made in collaboration with MJ Lenderman, contemporary avatar of the loose-limbed guitar-driven rock that the sisters have been helping to keep from falling out of vogue, and Snocaps could have been hailed as conquering heroes. Instead, the existence of the band was a secret until the moment their self-titled (and appropriately candy-themed) debut arrived on Halloween 2025. As surprises go, it’s a modest one, but maybe more welcome than could have been anticipated. The same can be said of the music itself: 12 songs (and a cute album-ending reprise) led by chiming guitars and the twins’ vocals that feel simultaneously low-stakes and vital, logically splitting the difference between the rougher-hewn rock of Allison’s post-P.S. project Swearin’ and Katie’s (Grammy-nominated!) Americana-skewing Waxahatchee. The Crutchfields and Lenderman play all the instruments, along with North Carolina-based producer Brad Cook, who also helmed the last couple of Waxahatchee albums; it would be tempting to float the dreaded “supergroup” label if everything else about the project didn’t resist that kind of portentousness.

The Crutchfield twins—accompanied by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook—reunite for a spirited new project that plays to their strengths and embraces all the miles they’ve traveled.

Katie and Allison Crutchfield's first album together since P.S. Eliot’s breakup in 2011 is a hailstorm of warm, exceptionally-written country-rock bangers backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook.

Waxahatchee and her twin sister are joined by Lenderman and Brad Cook for an album of headstrong, tender Americana about chasing integrity and conviction