The cliched adage about oppressive presidents making for great music, was wildly overused during Trump’s nightmare rein. But on Blood, her latest, Juliana Hatfield managed to prove that adage true once again. Much like’s 2017’s Pussycat, politics is all over Blood making for some of Hatfield’s strongest songwriting in decades. The uncertainty around the COVID pandemic – the album was mostly recorded in Hatfield’s home due to the global shut down – can also be heard throughout the record on songs like “Mouthful of Blood” and the vivid “Had A Dream.” Even the deceptively peppy music on “Nightmary” – easily of the album’s best moments – belies the lyrics (“I’m living in a nightmare and I can’t wake up/the whole world is controlled by fascist blood-sucking thugs”). That same song f...
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