I See You [EP] by Juliana Hatfield

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. 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 reworkin...