Fast on the heels of April 2018’s acclaimed “Juliana Hatfield Sings
Olivia Newton-John” comes
Juliana Hatfield’s new self-produced all-originals album “Weird”. Freda
Love Smith (Blake
Babies, Sunshine Boys) and Todd Philips (Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three)
each
played drums on multiple songs while Hatfield played all of the other
instruments (and some
additional drums). Weird is an album about disconnection and discomfort.
“I often feel cut-off
from other people, from my feelings, from technology, from popular culture,”
says Hatfield. “I feel weird, I feel like I’m dreaming my life and that
I am going to wake up some day.” While Hatfield’s songs—melodies and
lyrics and structures–are meticulously crafted, her guitar parts are loose and
sometimes a little unhinged; first-take expressions of this temperamental
uneasiness.
“Personally, I feel like a malfunctioning machine. There’s a screw or two loose. I want my guitar playing to reflect that.”