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Juliana Hatfield swung by to talk with Kyle Meredith about Lightning Might Strike , her 20th album and one of her most revealing yet. Written during a year that saw major loss, depression, and a move from her longtime city apartment to a quiet house in the woods, the record finds Hatfield turning personal rubble into power-pop gold. Listen to the episode above or wherever you get your podcasts .

If Hatfield sounds unusually direct on these songs, it’s because she was writing from the eye of the storm. “I felt like I was having a long, slow nervous breakdown,” she says. The honesty runs through tracks like “Falls Apart,

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