| · Sometimes sadness creates beauty. Sometimes sadness is just tiresome.
Some Girls is indeed a beautiful looking band. Ex-Blake Babies Juliana Hatfield (guitars) and Freda Love (drums) are joined by Heidi Gluck (bass) to fill out the threesome.
College days for me consisted of heavy rotation of Hatfield’s 1992 album Hey Babe. The tortured voice and woe-filled lyrics rang true during those dark, difficult art-school years.
With Some Girls, I was hoping for sincere creative evolution. Hell, I’d settle for a smile from just one of the three on the album art. While the record isn’t all gloom, it isn’t much of anything, and after bopping along to the jingly guitar, it’s quickly forgotten.
The songs that stand out have Gluck contributing on harmonica and slide guitar, but they’re sparse. It’s all Juliana, as she wrote half the songs and co-wrote three others with Love.
The biggest problem with the record is this: a Juliana Hatfield album is like Kraft Dinner – you know what you’re getting when you buy it. It tastes OK, but not as good as it did in school.
2/5
CHRISTOPHER MARKOWSKY
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