''Bed'' is the third solo album by American singer-songwriter

Juliana Hatfield Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls (band), Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Julia ...

, released in 1998 by

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Recording

''Bed'' was written in a few weeks, and recorded and mixed from March 9 to March 15, 1998 at Sound Station Seven in

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. Hatfield chose to record the album with a stripped-down sound and did not favor any digital processing effects. According to her, "I had just been listening to things that were very raw and dry, the kind of things where you can really hear all the instruments very close to your ear when you have headphones on. I guess I was feeling raw, and I didn't want to pretty it up or put anything on top of it."

Reception

Writing for ''

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'', reviewer Brett Milano praised the album, stating that its songs have more depth than Hatfield's earlier

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hits. Although he admitted that some tracks sounded a bit rushed, he felt that the album has enough gems to keep it interesting.

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians *Juliana Hatfield –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Todd Philips –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

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– bass ;Technical *Producer: Juliana Hatfield *Engineer: Jon Williams *Package design: Tom Bonauro,

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*Design assistant: Richard Turtletaub *Photography: Jim Goldberg

References

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