★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare For the People, By the People The title of Juliana Hatfield's There's Always Another Girl may refer to romance, but it may also speak to something else: her career. The singer-songwriter spent years bouncing between labels before launching her own Ye Olde Records in 2005--when, for the first time, there wasn't another person affecting her creative decisions...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-01-02
★★★★★
Juliana Hatfield calmly sings in the opening track of her new album, "I was gonna change my ways/ but I have not changed/ I'm still the same." No kidding. It's 2011, not 1991. Twenty years ago was a different story for the then-fresh-faced good girl of indie rock. Juliana was ending her first band, the Blake Babies, and just about to release her debut solo album. The early '90s were good to Juliana...
- www.ink19.com
2011-10-27
★★★★★
For Juliana Hatfield fans, the release of There's Always Another Girl should feel like an accomplishment. The songwriter's been in a near-daily conversation with them about the album's recording process through her PledgeMusic website and raised money by selling unique items and experiences on the site. Things fans could "pledge" for through the site ranged from a personal Skype session with the singer to the downright-weird "certified" lock of hair...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-09-12
★★★★★
Juliana Hatfield is something of an indie pop survivor. In the 20 (yes, 20) years since the dissolution of the Blake Babies, she has continued plugging her huskily sweet, solo-girl pop on any label that will have her. The long years of label-hopping have perhaps led us to this point: the self-released (on Hatfield's Ye Olde imprint), fan-funded There's Always Another Girl...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
It's a confusing time in music when an artist as well known and established as Juliana Hatfield has to take donations to bankroll her new record. You wonder why a label wouldn't be willing to underwrite such a gifted songwriter. But then track 12 comes on, in which Hatfield moans the dreary chorus "The batteries are dead, totally dead, completely dead" about a cellphone and you remember that she probably did too many drugs with Evan Dando and is now slightly out of her mind...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
Sometimes it's impossible to figure out exactly how Juliana Hatfield wants us to feel about her. Are we supposed to celebrate her as an artist who kept her head above water by striking out as an independent when her star began to fade at the end of the '90s? Or do we show her sympathy for the very same reason? Like many of her Alternative Nation-era peers, Hatfield got burned by the game and vowed never to play it again...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
Back in the day, for reasons aesthetic and sonic, connections between Hatfield and Liz Phair were regularly drawn. Today, the comparison ought not hold (Phair is sell-out fluff, and anyway, shouldn't Hatfield have a voice of her own by now?), but it undeniably does and threatens to taint the entire listen. That said, this record is jangly, mature, breathy and proud - Hatfield's doing well for herself - but its lack of presence gets in the way of any true impact...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
July 4th, 2004: I'm standing across the street from the house Juliana Hatfield grew up in, watching Duxbury, Massachusetts' 112th annual 4th of July parade. Since 1892, our mutual hometown has gone from coastal shipping powerhouse to obscenely wealthy suburb; when the Farrelly brothers made millions off Something About Mary, Bobby flexed his wallet on Powder Point, an outcropping of massive waterfront lots leading up to the longest wooden bridge in America...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
By now, Juliana Hatfield's business accomplishments have far outstripped her musical ones. In the early 1990s, she turned her cult notoriety with Blake Babies into "120 Minutes" buzz, and she harnessed the momentum from her 1993 decent-seller Become What You Are into something resembling a career. She's still going strong at a time when most of her alt-peers have long ago faded into obscurity or nostalgia tours...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
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