Allison Crutchfield turned a breakup into a stunning new record

Allison Crutchfield Photo: Jesse Riggins
If the lyrics on indie rock artist Allison Crutchfield’s latest record, Tourist in Town, feel incredibly raw, it’s because their source is real heartbreak and disillusionment. Crutchfield’s punk group Swearin’ broke up in 2015 following the end of her five-year relationship with the band’s bassist Kyle Gilbride. (“It was literally like my world was turned upside down,” she recently told Brooklyn Vegan about that