From Juliana's official site:
Juliana’s 2011 14-song album “There’s Always Another Girl” is about to be back in stock! You can pre-order it here now for the bargain price of $8.00, plus shipping/handling. Please note that there are separate shipping/handling prices and “buy-now” buttons for North American and overseas orders.
Pre-orders: julianahatfield.com/taag.htm
Related: this site's track by track review from 2011.
Juliana's 2011 album There's Always Another Girl is available again on CD at julianahatfield.com.
A couple of album reviews that emerged towards the end of last year that you may have missed:
Katie Caroll, mxdwn.com:
There’s Always Another Girl is hit and miss; it tries to bring together the many incarnations of Juliana Hatfield’s impressive career.
Steve Smart, Rabbit Hole Urban Music:
She's the kind of artist you can get very attached to over the years. I know I have - 5/5
The vinyl / LP / actual proper old skool record version of There's Always Another Girl is now available from Juliana's official site.
Two songs from the download / CD version - Candy Wrappers and its alternate reprise And Again are not included due to size constraints.
How rare. A Juliana remix.
Don't Wanna Dance (Brad Walsh remix) has been created for use as runway music for Christian Siriano at New York Fashion Week.
You may recall that Brad Walsh took some excellent photos of Juliana after a book reading in 2008.
If you haven't already nabbed the track at PledgeMusic you can download from this direct link to the mp3:
http://www.bradwalsh.com/audio/JulianaHatfield-DontWannaDance-BradWalshRemix.mp3
If you're curious, you can listen to Brad's remix of 'She's A Blast' by The Beautiful Bodies (from the same EP) at SoundCloud.
a couple of notes for any Brits reading this:
1 'runway' means 'catwalk'.
2 sadly it's not that Brad Walsh
Another batch of There's Always Another Girl reviews:
First up Daniel Tebo, loving it big time at PopMatters:
While her fellow graduates from the class of ’93 have been content relive past glories, Hatfield has matured into a distinguished, risk-taking songwriter who continues to surprise and occasionally confound listeners.
8/10
Then Jason Keller, not so much at Now Magazine:
Many of the other 13 songs on her 11th studio album (financed by pledgemusic, with a percentage going to animal shelters) show flashes of the melodic brilliance of her early 90s output, like the sweetly sung Failure, the easy groove of Thousands Of Guitars and the bluesy boogie of Don’t Wanna Dance.
3/5
And finally, Chris Kein, most definitely not impressed at Tiny Mix Tapes:
In a time where it is possible for acts who made their careers in that early-90s cauldron of independent creativity to reform and remake themselves, it seems a cop-out to make such a risk-free album, especially since Hatfield had full creative control.
2/5
thanks to liveontomorrow reader Carlos for submitting some recent links
Three more reviews for you:
Mark Jenkins, Blurt Online:
The pretty-girl trap and bad-boy misbehavior are longtime Hatfield themes, but she's rarely delivered them with such directness and authority.
6/10
Tyler Kane, Paste Magazine:
...It’s moments like these that show Hatfield’s ability to take advantage of her own intentional, focused ideas and meld them with spontaneous moments of creative opportunity.
7.2/10
Some guy in the UK, Some Website:
The honor system had worked well since 2004, the $1,000 songs had sold, she'd succesfully auctioned her guitars. PledgeMusic was always going to work.
Ok the last one is from your humble webmaster, which doubles as the prestigious liveontomorrow review™ on this site's dedicated page for There's Always Another Girl, where all the reviews, links and other relevant info from these here news pages will be collated. More information than you could possibly ever need or want. That's how I roll.
The new album is now available for non-pledgers as a digital download in most territories.
The physical CD remains available to order at Juliana's official site.
Those who pledged on the vinyl version have been notified by Juliana of a delay until mid September (pledger only link) but they all have the download version.
So if you haven't heard There's Always Another Girl yet, your excuses are running out.
You can read this review by Jonathan Perry at the Boston Globe.
A couple of other reviews are also online. A gushing blog review at A Momentary Lapse, With Joel:
Juliana has written a song full of truth. 'There's Always Another Girl' will leave an impression on you and you'll want to go back and re-listen to make sure you heard every word she uttered. "Don't you love it when a beautiful woman self destructs?"
And a not quite so gushing review from Austin Trunick at Consequence Of Sound:
Nothing says open mic night more than singing lyrics such as “The batteries are dead/Totally, completely dead [...] Completely fucking dead.” It’s bad enough to recall another buried mid-’90s memory: Phoebe Buffay’s agitating coffeehouse performances on Friends.
2/5
The liveontomorrow review is now imminent. That's the one you're all waiting for of course.
Let the reviews commence...
this album is the perfect blend of everything that Juliana already does best, while amping up the melodies, harmonies and moods to degrees that even some of her most ardent followers probably couldn’t have predicted.
Marc With A C, The Real Congregation
Having made her name producing sardonic jangle-pop tunes with sometimes uncomfortably honest lyrics, Hatfield has wisely gone back to those roots for There’s Always Another Girl. Recapturing the golden-age of ’90s female-fronted indie, the album feels startlingly retro at times.
7/10
Terry Mulcahy, wears the trousers magazine
The innocent voice may be a little raspier with age, and the heart may be a little more ragged and roughed up by experience, but the soul of Juliana Hatfield remains strong.
Wow.
Just hours after the PledgeMusic download release of There's Always Another Girl, we now have some bonus demos too!
Released under the old skool Juliana honor system, 12 tracks are now available for download at Juliana's official site. Although some have been available before (at Juliana's site and PledgeMusic) there are some interesting new ones. They are released with the caveat:
Please understand/be forewarned that some of these demos are unfinished works in progress, especially lyrically.
With that in mind...
Download, Devour and Decide what to Donate.
The lyrics to There's Always Another Girl are now up at Juliana's official site.
The time has come people.
Coinciding with her birthday, Juliana's new album - There's Always Another Girl - is now available to download for PledgeMusic subscribers.
Audiophiles will note that the download is a 192 kbps mp3 affair.
Juliana says:
This has been a really interesting and illuminating and gratifying project and I can't thank you all enough for taking part. I hope to do it again soon.
This also means that the project is now closed. If you haven't pledged, you'll have to wait until Juliana makes the album available for general sale from August 30. (Update You can now pre-order at Juliana's official site.)
Download, Decompress and Devour.
Another new song and this time it's a preview from the now imminent new album.
Stray Kids is track 8 from There's Always Another Girl and can be heard / downloaded at Stereogum.
In her PledgeMusic update yesterday Juliana said:
if you do hear the sneak peek don’t go thinking that the whole album will sound just like that, okay? not that i don’t love the song—i have a special place in my heart for the song.....it has been around me for a while, in different forms.
A spotters badge for anyone who has recognised one of those different forms as Bringing You Down Again - one of the 2009 honor downloads.
The new album cover is uncovered. Literally.
The new album, There's Always Another Girl will be available to download on July 27, 2011 for those of us who have made any of the pledges on the PledgeMusic project.
The vinyl mastering was completed last week, so the physical versions on CD and vinyl should follow shortly for those who picked them as their pledge.
The album remains on schedule as a CD release for non-pledgers on August 30.
The CD tracklist for the new album There's Always Another Girl as announced today by Juliana:
This is updated from the list originally declared in May and, woohoo, with one more track.
Juliana has changed the title of her new album from Speeches Delivered To Animals And Plants to There's Always Another Girl.
"the new title is more succinct and makes sense, somehow, and goes really well with the artwork we are working on. also i was a bit concerned about the absolute legality of the former title as it was sort of borrowed from john irving’s “the world according to garp” (a great book)—it was (almost) the name of the book of poems that the tongueless character ellen james writes and never publishes."
She explains more in her latest PledgeMusic update.
Probably a wise decision on grounds of brevity alone. Even the original press release demoted the original title to "Speeches...", which it would inevitably have become known.
Juliana has also been pondering the track ordering so the previously announced tracklist was premature too.
There's Always Another Girl will be a familiar title to many of us, taken from what will now be the the album's title track. This song originally debuted on Myspace in April 2009 following Juliana tweeting her thoughts on Lindsay Lohan. This home demo version remains available on mp3 at Stereogum.
