Weird (album)

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Weird
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
Length37:44
Label American Laundromat
Juliana Hatfield chronology
Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John
(2018)
Weird
(2019)
Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Paste 7.3/10 [3]
Under the Radar 8/10 [4]

Weird is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield. [5] It was released on January 18, 2019, through American Laundromat Records. [6] She began working on the record after wrapping up Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia-Newton-John . "I had a lot of musical ideas. I went back into the studio and recorded a bunch of music, she said in a 2019 interview about the album. "I took a month or two off to write lyrics. I don’t usually work like that. I usually have full songs written, but I just felt like I wanted to do things a little differently. What emerged was a portrait of my life right now, which is pretty solitary and slightly isolated but not unpleasantly so. I was exploring what it’s like to be alone a lot of the time. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it could be a very good thing." [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Juliana Hatfield

No.TitleLength
1."Staying In"3:52
2."It's So Weird"3:16
3."Sugar"2:57
4."Everything's for Sale"3:27
5."All Right, Yeah"2:25
6."Broken Doll"3:18
7."Receiver"3:43
8."Lost Ship"3:34
9."Paid to Lie"3:23
10."No Meaning"3:27
11."Do It to Music"4:22
Total length:37:44

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