Juliana Hatfield: Pussycat (Vinyl LP)
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release from the alt-rock singer/songwriter. I wasn't planning on making a record, says Juliana Hatfield, of her Pussycat album. In fact, she thought her songwriting career was on hiatus, and that she had nothing left to say in song form; that she had finally said it all after two decades as a recording artist. But then the presidential election happened. All of these songs just started pouring out of me. And I felt an urgency to record them, to get them down, and get them out there. She booked some time at Q Division studios in Somerville, Massachusetts near her home in Cambridge and went in with a drummer (Pete Caldes), an engineer (Pat DiCenso) and 14 brand-new songs. Hatfield produced and played every instrument other than drums-bass, keyboards, guitars, vocals. From start to finish-recording through mixing-the whole thing took a total of just twelve and a half days to complete. Pussycat comes on the heels of last year's Hatfield collaboration with Paul Westerberg, the I Don't Cares' Wild Stab album, and before that, 2015's Juliana Hatfield Three reunion/reformation album, Whatever, My Love. Pussycat is being released into a very tense, divided and inflamed America. The songs are reflective of that atmosphere-angry (When You're A Star), defiant (Touch You Again), disgusted (Rhinoceros), but also funny (Short-Fingered Man), reflective (Wonder Why), righteous (Heartless) and even hopeful (Impossible Song, with it's chorus of 'What if we tried to get along/and sing an impossible song'). I Wanna Be Your Disease, Impossible Song, You're Breaking My Heart, When You're a Star, Good Enough for Me, Short-Fingered Man, Touch You Again, Sex Machine, Wonder Why, Sunny Somewhere, Kellyanne, Heartless, Rhinoceros, Everything Is Forgiven
Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release from the alt-rock singer/songwriter. I wasn't planning on making a record, says Juliana Hatfield, of her Pussycat album. In fact, she thought her songwriting career was on hiatus, and that she had nothing left to say in song form; that she had finally said it all after two decades as a recording artist. But then the presidential election happened. All of these songs just started pouring out of me. And I felt an urgency to record them, to get them down, and get them out there. She booked some time at Q Division studios in Somerville, Massachusetts near her home in Cambridge and went in with a drummer (Pete Caldes), an engineer (Pat DiCenso) and 14 brand-new songs. Hatfield produced and played every instrument other than drums-bass, keyboards, guitars, vocals. From start to finish-recording through mixing-the whole thing took a total of just twelve and a half days to complete. Pussycat comes on the heels of last year's Hatfield collaboration with Paul Westerberg, the I Don't Cares' Wild Stab album, and before that, 2015's Juliana Hatfield Three reunion/reformation album, Whatever, My Love. Pussycat is being released into a very tense, divided and inflamed America. The songs are reflective of that atmosphere-angry (When You're A Star), defiant (Touch You Again), disgusted (Rhinoceros), but also funny (Short-Fingered Man), reflective (Wonder Why), righteous (Heartless) and even hopeful (Impossible Song, with it's chorus of 'What if we tried to get along/and sing an impossible song'). I Wanna Be Your Disease, Impossible Song, You're Breaking My Heart, When You're a Star, Good Enough for Me, Short-Fingered Man, Touch You Again, Sex Machine, Wonder Why, Sunny Somewhere, Kellyanne, Heartless, Rhinoceros, Everything Is Forgiven