Juliana Hatfield has announced that her twenty-first studio album entitled Lightning Might Strike will arrive December 12th courtesy of American Laundromat Records and she has unveiled the project’s lead single “Scratchers,” accompanied by the song’s official video. Lightning Might Strike is the follow-up to 2023’s Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO and her most recent LP comprised of original songs, Blood, released in 2021.

“It was a difficult time for me when I started working on this album,” Hatfield confides in an official statement, explaining that the songs she penned for Lightning Might Strike were informed by a series of challenging circumstances. “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 was 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’).”

Watch the official video for “Scratchers” below.

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