Weird | ||||
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Released | January 18, 2019 | |||
Length | 37:44 | |||
Label | American Laundromat | |||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 74/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [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]
All tracks are written by Juliana Hatfield
No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, along with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Philips, which was active in the mid-1990s and again in the mid-2010s. It was with the Juliana Hatfield Three that she produced her best-charting work, including the critically acclaimed albums Become What You Are (1993) and Whatever, My Love (2015) and the singles "My Sister" (1993) and "Spin the Bottle" (1994).
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