Juliana Hatfield - Weird

The Guardian 60

(American Laundromat)

Older bands’ careers are more readily sustained by a hiatus/reunion cycle than consistency. So news of Juliana Hatfield’s 17th solo album – 25th if you include her albums with other groups – didn’t generate the headlines received by the returning Sleater-Kinney or Bikini Kill, her peers in 90s feminist rock. Her catalogue is inconsistent, but 32 years after she debuted with the brilliant indie-pop band Blake Babies, Hatfield has never grown complacent, and continually puts new shine on her wry alt-rock storytelling.