Here’s Juliana’s new song Popsicle, the 2nd single from her forthcoming LP Lightning Might Strike:
Of the song, Juliana says:
Could ‘Popsicle’ take the prize for ‘feel-bad song of the winter’? It certainly doesn’t pull any punches in its description of mid-life disillusionment. But sonically I was going for fun and catchy, as ever. I love to take a simple, recognizable idea—the sweet frozen perennial summer treat, in this case—and use it as a symbol of all the dread in my head,
Juliana has announced Lightning Might Strike, her first album of original songs since 2021’s Blood. The release is scheduled for December 12, 2025 with a new single out today. Here’s Scratchers, featuring the album title’s in the lyrics:
Fall Apart
Long Slow Nervous Breakdown
Popsicle
My House Is Not My Dream House
Harmonizing With Myself
Scratchers
Constant Companion
Where Are You Now
Strong Too Long
Wouldn't Change Anything
Ashes
All I've Got
Ordering info is at American Laundromat Records including the now customary vinyl colour variants, with CD and cassette options too.
https://www.alr-music.com/products/juliana-hatfield-lightning-might-strike
Juliana has written about the album:
It was a difficult time for me when I started working on this album. I had just uprooted myself from the city apartment building where I’d been living for twenty years to a house in a more rural town two hours away where I knew no one when one of my best friends died (“Ashes”), and then my dog died (“Constant Companion”), then my mother was diagnosed with esophagus cancer (“Scratchers”). I was pretty depressed for a solid year (“Long Slow Nervous Breakdown”) and lost and very lonely (“Harmonizing With Myself”). I was thinking about fate and circumstance and about how I’d ended up where I was (“Where Are You Now”).
However much or hard I try, it seems, I’ve never had much control over much in my life.
I should say here that my mother’s younger brother was struck and killed by lighting at the age of 16 and when I asked her how this affected her worldview, she told me that it made her believe that there is a predetermined plan for each of us.
(Read more on the American Laundromat ordering page)
Juliana’s official site has a new look too with some new photos at julianahatfield.com
