Juliana Hatfield
Lightning Might Strike
American Laundromat
Released 12/12/25
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Juliana Hatfield’s twenty-first studio album Lightning Might Strike has arrived courtesy of American Laundromat Records. Preceded by the official singles “Scratchers,” “Popsicle” and “Fall Apart,” 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’).”
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