Released on SoundCloud today and previously only available on a 7 inch bonus single sold with the Olivia Newton-John covers album, here's Juliana's version of Deeper Than The Night.
Wonder Why is the second track to be revealed from next month's Pussycat album.
It premiered today at Consequence of Sound, where there's also an interview by Ben Kaye including Juliana's comments on this new song:
(CoS) Can you talk a bit about “Wonder Why”? Specifically, what was the songwriting process for this one like in particular, and what was the message you wanted to get across?
(JH) “Wonder Why” is different than the rest of the songs on the album in terms of its subject matter. It is very nostalgic. It is memories from the 1970’s when I was a child. Colors and furniture and TV shows and movies and events specific to my experience of that era soothe me, somehow. It’s escapism and lately escapism is more important to me than ever. In my mind I go back there to my childhood and it comforts me. And even the melody is reminiscent of the great AM radio pop hits of the 1970’s. It’s a little bit ELO or something. Not intentionally but just because that era and its music and feeling is really ingrained in my psyche. Some of the details in the song are factually incorrect because I needed certain words to fit and to rhyme. My childhood kitchen, for example, was light blue and not avocado green.
Impossible Song is the first track to be released from the upcoming album Pussycat.
It premiered today at PopMatters.
There's also a short article at The Boston Globe where Juliana talks about the album:
“I’m definitely not a time waster. I try to do everything as quickly and thiftily as I can,”...“But this was especially quick. I guess cathartic is the word. It was kind of like an electric flash of creativity. For better or worse, it just happened.”
Juliana's contribution to Rough Trade Publishing's A Song A Day Keeps The Pain Away project is released today.
"Kellyanne" is an exclusive to the subscription model of the project ($20+ USD), and therefore not available for individual purchase.
As premiered in Freda's article for The Talkhouse, this version of what would become titled Take Me is from the Blake Babies Earwig demos project.
It sounds fantastic and augurs well for the rest of the album.
The I Don't Cares (the new band featuring Juliana and The Replacements' Paul Westerberg) have released a new single.
Featuring Westerberg on lead vocal, King Of America is the 2nd track to be revealed from their forthcoming debut album Wild Stab.
So far it's only available from iTunes. (US and UK links).
Also, Amazon (US and UK)
The tracklist:
- Back
- Wear Me Out Loud
- Born For Me
- 1/2 2P
- Sorry For Tomorrow Night
- Dance To The Fight
- Kissing Break
- Just A Phase
- Outta My System
- Need The Guys
- Love Out Loud
- King of America
- Little People
- Whole Lotta Nothin'
- Done Done Done
- Hands Together
The artwork:
There's a new band in town.
They're called The I Don't Cares.
Juliana Hatfield is in it.
Paul Westerberg is in it.
There's a single.
It's called 1/2 2 P.
You can buy it at Nimbit Music.
You can buy it at iTunes or stream on Apple Music in the US & UK and no doubt elsewhere.
It's on Spotify.
It's on Rdio.
It's from an album called Wild Stab.
Wild Stab is "coming soon".
There you go.
New!* Coming next month!**
Juliana features on a track titled Easy, which she has co-written with Brad. The lyrics are on Brad's site.
*As pointed out on the This Is The Sound Group, the words are a combination of lines from Don't Wanna Dance and Candy Wrappers, the former having been previously remixed by Walsh in 2011. So, sort of New!
** Update November 4, 2015 - the EP is now available on all major download / streaming services (in the UK at least - it's out in the US tomorrow - November 5). You can also hear it at SoundCloud.
The 4th track from Whatever, My Love to get the pre-release streaming treatment is I'm Shy - another of the re-recorded versions of songs previously released on mp3 a decade back.
The album's out on general release tomorrow of course.
American Laundromat Records are now streaming a third song from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album, Whatever, My Love.
Wood is one of two bonafide all new songs on the record.
Juliana calls the song "the opposite of 'I Wanna Sex You Up'" and describes it as being "about numbness and dissociation – feeling like a block of wood." Speaking to Rolling Stone, she says:
There are mood swings in both mind and body. Like I've said before in songs like 'I Got No Idols,' sometimes 'I don't like to be touched.' How do you handle it when you feel dead and numb? When your significant other wants affection and you don't? It's complicated and mysterious, biological and psychological and emotional.
It sounds very much like a Juliana Hatfield Three song should in 2015. Good work.
American Laundromat Records are streaming another song from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album Whatever, My Love.
Ordinary Guy is another reworked version of a song previously released in Juliana's 'Honor Download Experiment' a decade ago.
Here we go then. This track is taken from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album, Whatever, My Love.
It's a new recording of a song first heard in the 'honor downloads experiment' a decade ago.
Juliana:
I have always loved this song and I always wanted it to be done up properly and although this is not shockingly or radically different than the demo, I really love it.
Folk over on the PledgeMusic comments recall Juliana performing this song at the Bush Hall shows in London back in 2006. The website you're reading now exists because of those shows.
The song is rather special, isn't it?
Juliana's cover of 'Needle In The Hay' by Elliott Smith is released today* on the 'I Saved Latin!' compilation album - a tribute to Wes Anderson.
*It is available in physical and digital formats in the US. The UK digital stores and stream services also have it today with Amazon UK showing a CD date of May 26. Other regions may vary.
Juliana's cover of Elliott Smith's 'Needle In The Hay' (from the previously announced Wes Anderson tribute album 'I Saved Latin!') can currently be heard at Paste.
The tracklist for Juliana's new album, released today via PledgeMusic (subscribers only):
- Sleep
- June 6th
- Spit In The Wind
- Parking Lots
- Dog On A Chain
- Hurt Me
- Tracks
- Push Pin
- Or So They Say
- Love Is Like The Wind
- Never Beg
It is titled 'Wild Animals', acoustic and very much a solo effort, similar to the sound of the Peace & Love album.
It's available to download as mp3 and...drumroll...FLAC.
Juliana says to pledgers:
I am eternally grateful and so happy and lucky to be able to keep making my music for you. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed assembling it in my little back room with the bird songs coming in through the windows.
Currently this is a PledgeMusic exclusive but as per the last two projects we can expect a general release within a few weeks. UPDATE - the release date is September 10. Pre-orders are being taken at julianahatfield.com.
tomorrow, 2 p.m., EST (eastern standard time[massachusetts time]) we will launch my new pledgemusic.com peoplefunded project
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) June 1, 2013
That's 7pm British Summer Time, 6pm UTC.
As spotted by Andrew on the This Is The Sound group, there is a new* song titled Miles Away available to listen at Juliana's PledgeMusic profile page.
Bring on tomorrow.
*it's a new old song
Juliana's cover of this cover can be heard now by PledgeMusic subscribers.