Waxahatchee - "Sparks Fly"

When Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield emerged with 2012's American Weekend, she was a chronicler of life's rawest nerves and realest emotions — dark, gripping stuff born of rootlessness and self-discovery, ideally suited to the album's ragged and unrefined acoustic arrangements. In the years since, Crutchfield has polished Waxahatchee's sound to maximize its glimmering-but-spiky forcefulness, but her words remain as bracing and unsparing as ever.

So today, with my face to the storm, I choose Waxahatchee's "Sparks Fly" as my, brace yourself, take a deep breath, spread your wings, song for a, you can fly if you just leap, lift yourself back off the ground,  at the edge of the stormwall like a sparrow in a hurricane, Thursday.