Fantastic news everyone! Just when you thought the world was starting to become too heavy and negativity was swarming all over you everywhere you looked, Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace has come to save the day.
Just released today, the punk rock icon has surprised fans everywhere by dropping a brand new solo album.
Aptly titled Stay Alive, Grace’s new 14-track effort is just as uplifting as the title suggests. Addressing listeners about the new record, she said:
“Hi, my name is Laura Jane Grace. This is my album. This album is about staying alive. Stay alive. Don’t die. Work hard. Fight back.
This album is an entirely analog recording. No computers were involved in the making of this album. These recordings were not edited together, these songs are documented performances. This album was written and recorded in Chicago, Illinois. I recorded this album with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio on the two days after the full moon of July 5th, 2020. The album was mixed in another two days time. Steve and I were the only two people in the studio. We both wore face masks and stayed 6 feet apart at all times. I only took my face mask off while singing. Please wear a face mask.
There are songs on this album about haunted swimming pools and burning churches. There are songs about mountains. There are songs about astral seas and dry lakes. There are songs about drinking espressos and eating croissants at the Bora Bora beach club in Marbella, Spain. There are songs about dirty rivers that smell like pee in Glasgow, Scotland. There are songs about Nelson Algren’s Neon Jungle and Simone de Beauvoir’s Mandarines. There are songs about petrified polymorphs and blood and thunder and LSD and laying on the grave of the Marchesa Luisa Casati while day dreaming of fabulous parties thrown 100 years ago and how the world has fallen apart before and how it is falling apart now and how if we’re lucky it will fall apart again someday long from now too. There are songs about all of that and more but really this record is about staying alive. Stay alive. Don’t die.
Thank you for listening to my record. -LJG
PS: this may technically be my first proper solo record but I can’t even tell anymore
PSS: if at any point you refer to this album as an ‘acoustic album’ my 6 string strumming ghost will haunt 10 generations of your family every night of their lives with bedroom busking from 11PM to 6AM :)”
To check out the new album in full, be sure to look below. To pick up a physical copy, head here.
