Juliana Hatfield

Hatfield has made an impressive career out of setting her personal experiences to music, and In Exile Deo is no exception. Listening is a bit like eavesdropping on your older sibling's phone conversations, where confessions and desires are laid out with such emotional starkness it's hard not get swept up in the drama.

Juliana Hatfield albums have varied only slightly from one another over the years, and the
fact that she self-produced her latest serves as no distraction from the winning
guitar-bass-drums formula. The major difference on In Exile Deo is that lyrically she
wrestles with things in the past instead of, as she did in her Twenties, on the wounds of the
present. The overall effect is something dark as well as desperate, even as the m... More >