Laura Jane Grace Brought to Rot

Laura Jane Grace shares "Apocalypse Now (& Later)," details debut solo album

Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace is releasing the first Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers album (Laura plus Atom Willard and Marc Jacob Hudson) this fall, and now more details and the first single are here. It’s called Brought To Rot and it comes out November 9 via Bloodshot Records (pre-order). It’s got 14 songs, including lead single “Apocalypse Now (& Later),” which is on the folkier side, but not in the way of Against Me!’s early “folk punk” material. Laura says the album was inspired by Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever (“Bought to Rot finds her at the same age Petty was when he created his solo debut masterpiece”), and there’s definitely a wiser, more refined, more mature vibe to this song, much like Petty’s solo debut had. It’s great stuff, and you can hear it for yourself below. That’s the artwork above, and tracklist and tour dates are below too.

Laura talked to Rolling Stone about the decision to do a solo album before another Against Me! album:

I don’t feel this as much now, but at the time, I felt this pressure where I didn’t know, or don’t know, what Against Me! is supposed to be. Coming out of doing a book and doing Transgender Dysphoria Blues and Shape Shift With Me, I didn’t know if people were expecting for this to be political or expecting me to only sing about trans issues, but, like, that’s not what I’m writing about. I’m just writing because I really love writing songs and I really love playing music and I wasn’t trying to think about things like that. That pressure feels really unhealthy to me. It felt like I needed to break free of, “OK, here’s another Against Me! record.” It was suffocating.

Read more here.

Tracklist
China Beach
Born in Black
The Airplane Song
Apocalypse Now (& Later)
Reality Bites
Amsterdam Hotel Room
The Friendship Song
I Hate Chicago
Screamy Dreamy
Manic Depression
The Acid Test Song
The Hotel Song
Valeria Golino
The Apology Song

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers — 2018 Tour Dates
11/02 – Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Company
11/03 – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi
11/04 – Lansing, MI – Mac’s Bar
11/05 – Detroit, MI – The Shelter
11/08 – Chicago, IL – The Hideout
11/18 – Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge
11/29 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall