God Bless the Blake Babies LP

By the time Juliana Hatfield, John Strohm and Freda Love Smith reconvened as Blake Babies for this fourth album on Zoe Records, Hatfield had already built a solo career on her own, which makes the record's return to jangly, guitar-driven rock a genuine regrouping rather than a victory lap. Evan Dando sits in on additional playing. That's the same sound that built the trio's following around Boston in the late 1980s, and this clear vinyl pressing puts that reunion session back on wax.