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pixie punk
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 Posted - 08/04/2005 : 12:05:19
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One of my other favorite ladies of rock Juliana Hatfield rocks my world along with Kim Deal.In case you didn't know she has a new album coming out!!! Veteran indie rock artist Juliana Hatfield will return Aug. 9 with her eighth solo album, "Made in China," which will be the first release on her new label, Ye Olde Records. The singer/guitarist/songwriter tells Billboard.com the set was recorded quickly and represents more of the primal side of her music than its predecessor, last year's "In Exile Deo" (Zoe/Rounder).
"'Exile' was much more clean sounding," Hatfield says. "It was more edited and tailored and produced and rehearsed and well planned, and the new record is more haphazard, sound-wise and performance-wise, and it's a little more unconscious. I've bounced back and forth between the two ... both express parts of my personality, but I think its kinda more fun to be raw and sloppy."
The 12-track "Made in China" was recorded in Bellows Falls, Vt., and Cambridge, Mass., and features Hatfield alongside the Martha's Vineyard band Unbusted -- guitarist Joe Keefe, bassist Ben Smith and drummer Sebastian Keefe. Veteran Hatfield road rhythm section Pete Caldes (drums) and Ed Valuaskas (bass) also helped out, but the album is really about Hatfield, who took on all musical duties on the track "Oh," making her recorded debut as a drummer.
"It was really empowering to play all the instruments," she says of the experience. "I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it."
Tracks like tension-filled opener "New Waif," the caustic "My Pet Lion" and "Going Blonde" feature the punkier side of the former Blake Baby and Lemonhead, but the acoustic "Hole in the Sky" is more introspective. Closer "Send Money" is musically spare, but Hatfield's repeated chorus ("Save yourself / if you want to pray for me, tell God to send me some money") resonates powerfully at the record's end.
Hatfield plans to support the record with a short tour down the Eastern seaboard in August, followed by a West Coast outing as a power trio with Caldes and Valuaskas.
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pixie punk
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 08/04/2005 : 12:08:24
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www.some-girls.com www.julianahatfield.com Reprinted from the Boston Phoenix, by Chris Rucker
Made of honor
"I am a confused, sloppy, childish, conflicted mess," JULIANA HATFIELD writes on her Web site, in a rant attempting to explain the contradictions of her latest solo album, Made in China, which she describes as "faster and looser and louder" than her last one, and on which she’s backed by her boyfriend’s band the Unbusted as well as a few of the Gentlemen. "In Exile Deo, my last album, was a fairly clean, tailored, buttoned-up, adult affair," she continues, "influenced somewhat by the record company who wanted a product they could sell. But I could have told them I am not very marketable. I don’t fit in anywhere. I am a sensitive singer-songwriter, a hard-rocker, a pop diva, and a dadaist. I am none of these things." Made in China was made in Vermont and Cambridge and manufactured in America; due August 9, it’s the first disc on her own REDEYE-distributed label Ye Olde Records, and it includes a photographic self-portrait of a (tastefully) nude Hatfield in the tub.Hatfield plays the Wellfleet Beachcomber on Friday, the Hot Tin Roof on Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday, and the Paradise on August 20. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 08/04/2005 : 18:21:36
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| I've only ever heard a couple of her songs. She's cute!! |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 08/05/2005 : 17:33:06
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| cool. i have seen her twice!! i will have to check out the cd. thanks for the heads up. |
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pixie punk
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 08/09/2005 : 10:14:37
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Reprinted from the Associated Press, by Matt Moore
Made in China review
Forget Juliana Hatfield the waif. Ditch that memory of her song "Spin the Bottle," the one that seemed to emanate from the film "Reality Bites." Forget the Massachusetts girl who made up a third of the Blake Babies.
She's gone. And that's a good thing.
Hatfield has eviscerated her past, exorcised her previous pure-pop lyrics and dumped the foundation of her previous recordings in the dustbin.
On "Made In China," her eighth LP, Hatfield emerges scarred and smarter, playing a collection of biting, angry but oh-so-melodic songs that herald the indifference of not fitting in and, frankly, not giving a damn about even trying.
The 37-minute, 12-song disc is a collection of defiant yet personal songs and music that is more Hüsker Dü than Blake Babies or Lemonheads. Lust, addiction, the hurt of betrayal and the sting of loneliness emanate from the songs, including standout singles "Digital Penetration" and "Stay Awake," which could rip out the floor if the volume is high enough.
Maybe it's being victimized by rants from critics jaded by her failure to be the pop queen she was supposed to be. Or it could be the state of music today, where women are resorting to near striptease and selling sex rather than singles.
It doesn't matter. Her rage, indifference and edginess are in full effect on "Made in China," and her damnation has brought salvation. This is her best album ever. |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
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Posted - 08/17/2005 : 07:12:37
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Ive been listening to Juliana since about 1993 and have all her albums other than the new one (which I will buy soon)... I have a copy of Gods Foot also, which is the album that she did which her record label wouldn't release... thats pretty good although not the best quality recording.
Whats your opinions on the new album?
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate! |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
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Posted - 08/17/2005 : 10:41:43
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I like the cover art.
and you are ill prepared to fight
living in a world of soft and white
in air conditioned battle zones
I pity you!
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 08/17/2005 : 18:36:53
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| I've always had a fixation on her for some reason. I think any girl no matter how average she looks takes on super model proportions when she can pick up a guitar and rock (except for jewel, but she doesn't ROCK anyway). |
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Juliana Hatfield New CD
