Lightning Might Strike, by Juliana Hatfield

Lightning Might Strike

by Juliana Hatfield

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Surprise color (one of five shell colors). Only 150 cassettes exist. Mastered for analog and manufactured in the USA at National Audio Company in Springfield, MO.

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Exclusive limited edition LP on translucent blue vinyl. Only 300 pressed. Manufactured in the USA at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.

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Pre-order of Lightning Might Strike. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

releases December 12, 2025

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Limited Edition 12" Vinyl [Translucent Neon Green]
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Exclusive limited edition LP on translucent neon green vinyl. Only 200 pressed. Manufactured in the USA at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.

Includes digital pre-order of Lightning Might Strike. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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Original artwork by Juliana. 6-panel eco-wallet with lyrics. Manufactured in the USA at Disk Makers in Pennsauken, NJ.

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1.	Fall Apart 03:38	buy track
2.	Long Slow Nervous Breakdown
3.	Popsicle 03:20	buy track
4.	My House Is Not My Dream House
5.	Harmonizing With Myself
6.	Scratchers 03:31	buy track
7.	Constant Companion
8.	Where Are You Now
9.	Strong Too Long
10.	Wouldn't Change Anything
11.	Ashes
12.	All I've Got

about

It was a difficult time for me when I started working on this album. 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 (“Ashes”), and then my dog died (“Constant Companion”), then my mother was diagnosed with esophagus cancer (“Scratchers”). I was pretty depressed for a solid year (“Long Slow Nervous Breakdown”) and lost and very lonely (“Harmonizing With Myself”). I was thinking about fate and circumstance and about how I’d ended up where I was (“Where Are You Now”).

However much or hard I try, it seems, I’ve never had much control over much in my life.

I should say here that my mother’s younger brother was struck and killed by lighting at the age of 16 and when I asked her how this affected her worldview, she told me that it made her believe that there is a predetermined plan for each of us.

With this album I was contemplating these ideas--fate, powerlessness (“Popsicle”), the effects of trauma (“Wouldn’t Change Anything,” “Fall Apart”,” Strong Too Long”), the ways we can’t and don’t change.

I hold on to humility and gratitude (most of the time) rather than (constant) bitterness, and I have hope, mostly in the form of the music that I make, even if its subject matter is sometimes kind of grim. This practice of putting songs together has always sustained me and given my life—as uncontrollable as it feels-- meaning and purpose, even in the darkest times. “Lighting Might Strike” is largely about that; the music itself is pulling me out of a big hole (“All I’ve Got”) in real time, in the time it took me to make the album.

Chris Anzalone played and recorded all the drums from Arlington, Massachusetts. Ed Valauskas played and recorded most of the bass from Cambridge, MA. I did the bass on a few songs, plus all the guitars, keyboards, vocals, and percussion, in my house (“My House Is Not My Dream House”) in western MA. The talented Pat DiCenso then mixed and mastered it all. The whole thing took about two years—broken up in pieces and chunks (I went on tour for six weeks last autumn, etc.) -- to complete. - Juliana

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Juliana Hatfield Boston, Massachusetts

singer/guitarist/songwriter; co-founder of Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield Three, Some Girls; ½ of Minor Alps, ½ of the I Don't Cares; quasi Lemonhead

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