Juliana Hatfield Announces ELO Covers Album
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 Information, whereas her rendition of “Don’t Deliver Me Down” is out now.
As indie rock royalty, it could come as a shock that Hatfield would benefit from the pop stylings of Electrical Mild Orchestra. But you may 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 wished to get my arms deep into among the huge ‘70’s hits however I’m additionally shining a lightweight on among 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 Deliver Me Down” in an effort to put her personal spin on the 1979 traditional. The observe “is such a stable development that making an attempt 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 components, and we even dared a number of cymbal crashes (the ELO model has one famously unchanging drum loop–no crashes—from begin to end). This isn’t a radical reinvention nevertheless it is a bit more bubbly.”
Pre-orders for Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO are ongoing. The LP can be out there on CD, cassette, and 4 totally 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 mission 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 Concert for the Homeless in Northampton, MA, and in July, she’ll play two nights at City Winery in New York Metropolis.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO Paintings:
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 Deliver Me Down
06. Phone Line
07. Secret Messages
08. Bluebird Is Lifeless
09. From the Finish of the World
10. Bizarre 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)
