It’s been just slightly more than a month since a new band called Snocaps made their existence public. Twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield are longtime collaborators and bandmates, but Snocaps is their first time doing a band together in a long time, and it features their friends MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook. They surprise-released their excellent self-titled album on Halloween, and they gave their first-ever performance on The Tonight Show. Snocaps aren’t doing a proper tour, but they have announced a few shows in big cities. On Sunday night, they played their first full set at Chicago’s Thalia Hall.
When Snocaps announced plans for their first few live shows, Katie Crutchfield wrote about them on her Substack. She said that longtime collaborator Colin Croom would join the band onstage and that they carefully and intentionally picked out their setlists and opening acts. She also promised that the Crutchfield sisters would play a few songs from their other acts. Thus far, that’s exactly what has happened.
Bonny Doom opened for Snocaps at Thalia Hall on Sunday, and Cloakroom opened last night’s show. Both nights, Snocaps played all 12 proper songs on their album, and they also busted out songs from the Crutchfield sisters’ old band P.S. Eliot, as well as Allison’s band Swearin’ and a few older Waxahatchee tracks. As on The Tonight Show, MJ Lenderman was on drums, not guitar. According to Setlist.fm, though, the two shows ended them playing P.S. Eliot’s “Like How You Are,” with Lenderman on guitar and Allison Crutchfield on drums. Below, check out a bunch of videos from the first two shows, as well as the night-one setlist.
SETLIST:
01 “Coast”
02 “Wasteland”
03 “Brand New City”
04 “Silver” (Waxahatchee Song)
05 “Angel Wings
06 “Over Our Heads”
07 “Incoherent Love Songs” (P.S. Eliot song)
08 “Dust In The Gold Sack” (Swearin’ song)
09 “Hide”
10 “Cherry Hard Candy”
11 “Doom”
12 “Coast To Coast” (Waxahatchee song)
13 “Avalanche”
14 “Movie Star” (Swearin’ song)
15 “I Don’t Want To Play”
16 “Heathcliff”
17 “Shitty And Tragic” (P.S. Eliot song)
18 “You In Rehab”
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19 “Big Change” (Swearin’ song)
20 “Sparks Fly” (Waxahatchee song)
21 “Like How You Are” (P.S. Eliot song, with MJ Lenderman on guitar & Allison Crutchfield on drums)
Snocaps is out now on ANTI-. The band will play their last Chicago show tonight, and Graham Hunt will open.
