Juliana Hatfield has introduced a brand new addition to her collection of covers albums. Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO drops November seventeenth by way of American Laundromat Data, whereas her rendition of “Don’t Carry Me Down” is out now.
As indie rock royalty, it might come as a shock that Hatfield would benefit from the pop stylings of Electrical Gentle Orchestra. But you would simply hint her inarguably catchy music to the band’s melodies. “ELO songs have been at all times approaching the radio once I was rising up. They have been a dependable supply of delight and fascination,” Hatfield mentioned in a press release. “With this album of covers I needed to get my fingers deep into a few of the huge ‘70’s hits however I’m additionally shining a light-weight on a few of the later work… My activity was to try to break all of the issues down and reconstruct them subtly till they felt like mine.”
Hatfield needed to get into the trivia of “Don’t Carry Me Down” in an effort to put her personal spin on the 1979 basic. The observe “is such a stable development that attempting to transform it initially felt like taking a sledgehammer to concrete,” she mentioned. “I didn’t fear about matching all the unique’s actual sounds and elements, and we even dared a couple of cymbal crashes (the ELO model has one famously unchanging drum loop–no crashes—from begin to end). This isn’t a radical reinvention however it is a bit more bubbly.”
Pre-orders for Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO are ongoing. The LP shall be out there on CD, cassette, and 4 completely different colours of vinyl, and a restricted version 7-inch will characteristic two songs not current on the album: “I’m Alive” and “Once I Was a Boy.” The challenge follows Hatfield’s different covers albums, 2018’s Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John and 2019’s Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police.
In June, Hatfield will carry out on the One Roof Live performance for the Homeless in Northampton, MA, and in July, she’ll play two nights at Metropolis Vineyard in New York Metropolis.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO Art work:
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO Tracklist:
01. Candy Is the Evening
02. Can’t Get It Out of My Head
03. Showdown
04. Unusual Magic
05. Don’t Carry Me Down
06. Phone Line
07. Secret Messages
08. Bluebird Is Lifeless
09. From the Finish of the World
10. Extraordinary Dream
Juliana Hatfield 2023 Tour Dates:
06/17 — Northampton, MA @ One Roof Live performance For The Homeless
07/28 — New York, NY @ Metropolis Vineyard (Nuggets fiftieth Anniversary)
07/29 — New York, NY @ Metropolis Vineyard (Nuggets fiftieth Anniversary)