Get There is the debut collaborative album
from accomplished musicians Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws. Over the
last two decades, both have carved out long-lasting — and strikingly
independent — careers within a dependably fickle music business, Caws
with his now 20-year-old New York City group Nada Surf, and Hatfield
with the Boston-reared Blake Babies, the Juliana Hatfield Three, Some
Girls, as well as a number of releases under her own name. Along with
sharing lead vocals and writing credit on all of
Get There's
eleven tracks, Matthew and Juliana played every instrument beside the
drums, conjuring up an ever-shifting range of sounds and feelings.
It's
not just the timbre of the voices and the shared vision of their
musical explorations, but the emotional tone of Caws and Hatfield's
songs and lyrics that blends so seamlessly. Their attraction to themes
of restless solitude and constant longing have always been a compelling
part of their individual repertoires, and Minor Alps expresses an
ageless existential yearning tempered by hard-fought wisdom, maturity,
or maybe just acceptance of certain eternal truths.
