I See You [EP] by Juliana Hatfield (CD, Aug-1999, Mammoth)

Album Features
UPC:	035498004520
Artist:	Juliana Hatfield
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1999
Record Label:	Mammoth
Genre:	Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. I See You
2. Ugly
3. Rider
4. Here Comes the Pain
5. Feed Me

Details
Contributing Artists:	John Wesley Harding, Todd Philips
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Juliana Hatfield (vocals, guitar, bass); John Wesley Harding (vocals); Dean Fisher (bass); Todd Philips, Paul Trudeau (drums).Producers include: Gary Smith.Engineers include: Lou Giordano.Recorded at Fort Apache Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts in September 1992.Personnel: Juliana Hatfield (vocals, guitar); Paul Trudeau , Todd Philips (drums); John Wesley Harding (background vocals).Recording information: Fort Apache Studios, Cambridge, MA.Photographer: Michael Lavine.The title track of this brief five-song EP, an exhilarating pop song with harmony vocals by folk-popper John Wesley Harding, may well be the catchiest thing Juliana Hatfield has ever written. However, the rest of the disc moves away from such giddy pop heights and into darker and more reflective areas. The controversial "Ugly" (taken, like "I See You," from Hatfield's first solo album, HEY BABE) is a quiet solo acoustic performance with lyrics of intense self-loathing delivered by Hatfield in a near whisper.The remaining three tracks, all recorded in a one-day session produced by Lou Giordano, are stripped-down voice-and-guitar pieces with a demo-like feel that only intensifies their lyrical darkness. "Feed Me"--a slight reworking of the Blake Babies' "Boiled Potato"--is particularly striking, a positively chilling first person account of anorexia. The sunny title track aside, I SEE YOU makes for uneasy but rewarding listening.