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Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police
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  • Summary: The second release of covers from the singer-songwriter features 12 Police songs.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. PopMatters
    Nov 14, 2019
    80
    As Juliana Hatfield has demonstrated, the Police songbook is wide and varied enough to be open to endless interpretation. As she has demonstrated with this album as well as the Olivia Newton-John project, she's a musician who is dedicated to paying tribute to the music of her youth and finding new and interesting ways to present it.
  2. Under The Radar
    Nov 18, 2019
    80
    Ultimately, Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police distills all that's great about Hatfield—the innocence of her earliest recordings, the spreading her instrumental wings after The Juliana Hatfield Three's Become What You Are, the singer/songwriter touch of her mid-period, and a certain devil may care attitude—and presents it in the context of an artist reinventing herself, and these songs, for all to see.
  3. Paste Magazine
    Nov 14, 2019
    76
    Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police is an experiment, and maybe as such it’ll be deemed less worthy, less interesting, than Weird. But where Weird is good, Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police is engrossing, an act of pop cultural interrogation for its own sake.
  4. Uncut
    Nov 14, 2019
    70
    Her reinterpretations restore some of the post-punk edge to a band long overshadowed by its frontman's solo hubris. [Dec 2019, p.29]
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  5. AllMusic
    Nov 14, 2019
    70
    In Hatfield's hands, the songs of Sting and the Police don't necessarily sound like hits -- nor are they performed with the technical proficiency of Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland -- but they sound fresh and alive, once again feeling like punk-inspired pop.
  6. American Songwriter
    Nov 14, 2019
    60
    This is a fun listen but also feels like a way for Hatfield to amuse herself, romping through a dozen interesting, far from essential interpretations of the Police’s music in 45 minutes as she works on new material.

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  1. WCB
    Feb 11, 2020
    9
    As a long time Police fan, I found these new takes both familiar (in the case of the more faithful translations) and refreshing (as when sheAs a long time Police fan, I found these new takes both familiar (in the case of the more faithful translations) and refreshing (as when she pulls a song like "Next to You" into a new sonic space.) It's a great cover project for a band that hasn't received a lot of love in the cover department. I will have this in my playlist on repeat. Thanks, JH!!… Expand

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