Juliana Hatfield announces new album, shares “Scratchers”

Juliana Hatfield has announced a new album, Lightning Might Strike, which will be out December 12 via American Laundromat. She produced it herself, playing most of the instruments too, with drummer Chris Anzalone and bassist Ed Valauskas.

“It was a difficult time for me when I started working on this album, Juliana says. “I had just uprooted myself from the city apartment building where I’d been living for twenty years to a house in a more rural town two hours away where I knew no one when one of my best friends died, and then my dog died, then my mother was diagnosed with esophagus cancer. I was pretty depressed for a solid year and was lost and very lonely. I was thinking about fate and circumstance and about how I’d ended up where I was.” Most of those things ended up being subjects of songs on the album.

The first single from the album, and where the title comes from, is “Scratchers,” which is about luck and fate and hope. Also about buying scratch-off instant lottery tickets and all wrapped into a typically catchy indie rock song. You can listen to that below.

LIGHTNING MIGHT STRIKE
1. Fall Apart (3:38)
2. Long Slow Nervous Breakdown (2:30)
3. Popsicle (3:20)
4. My House Is Not My Dream House (3:36)
5. Harmonizing With Myself (3:31)
6. Scratchers (3:31)
7. Constant Companion (4:01)
8. Where Are You Now (3:53)
9. Strong Too Long (3:27)
10. Wouldn’t Change Anything (4:09)
11. Ashes (2:55)
12. All I’ve Got (2:38)