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| JULIANA HATFIELD |
LOST SHIP
Unidentified flying object
No love, no money
No hate, no jealousy
No one has any power over me
I get back on the solitary plane
Consistency, as any songwriter will tell you, can be a difficult thing to achieve in an industry dominated by money, fashion and the glorification of everything that is evanescent, ephemeral and frequently ridiculous. For more than three decades, Juliana Hatfield has been writing and releasing songs remarkable for their blending of her classic pop/post-punk sound and her uncompromising commitment to telling the truth about her times by telling the truth about herself.
Her new album Weird is no exception. It reflects her decision to withdraw from a world that's becoming crueler, more intolerant and harder to live in with each passing day. But Hatfield's decision should not be viewed as an act of evasion or defeat. Rather, it's an attempt to assert her independence as a human being and an artist and show people that it's okay to disengage and be alone, that to retreat from the noise and hype is not necessarily to retreat from life but instead to rediscover it via small pleasures enjoyed and reflected upon in solitude. Weird is a brave work of art and, like everything Juliana Hatfield does, a tuneful, memorable and refreshingly honest one.
Weird, her seventeenth solo album, will be released by American Laundromat Records on 18 January 2019.
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Last updated 16 March 2021
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