Weird (album)

Weird
Studio album by
Juliana Hatfield
ReleasedJanuary 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)
Length37:44
LabelAmerican Laundromat
Juliana Hatfield chronology
Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John
(2018) 		Weird
(2019) 		Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Paste7.3/10[3]
Under the Radar8/10[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]

  1. ^ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "Weird - Juliana Hatfield". AllMusic. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Zimmerman, Lee (January 28, 2019). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Valish, Frank (January 25, 2019). "Under the Radar Review". Under the Radar. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  5. ^ Snapes, Laura (January 18, 2019). "Weird review – wry alt-rock storyteller shines anew". The Guardian. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  6. ^ Blais-Billie, Braudie (October 17, 2018). "Juliana Hatfield Announces New Album Weird". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  7. ^ "Juliana Hatfield's Resilience". Whopperjaw. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-06-18.