Stay Alive Laura Jane Grace SKU: 18.00 18.00 £18.00 £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters Released Date: 11th December 2020 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Stay Alive quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Laura Jane Grace wasn’t planning on making a solo record this year. In fact, she was planning on making a record with Against Me!, the band she’s fronted for the past 23 years. But clearly, nothing went according to plan this year. So, Grace got to work. She picked up the phone and called Electrical Audio, the iconic studio in her adopted hometown of Chicago, Illinois, to ask if she could make a record with famed engineer Steve Albini. The goal was to go in and document these songs exactly as she’d been playing them in her home, straight to analog tape. When she hung up the phone, she had four days booked. The result of the session at Electrical Audio is Stay Alive, a record that doesn’t just embody that title, it serves as the guiding principle behind its creations. But it also put life back into an industry that’s been ravaged by venue closures, cancelled tours, and delayed records. A letter from Laura Jane: 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 🙂 Recorded by Steve Albini under strict social distancing rules, with nothing more than an acoustic guitar, an occasional drum machine, and her own powerful voice, it’s an accidental album born out of circumstance but all the better and more unique given the situation. Artist Laura Jane Grace Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Big Scary Monsters Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Swimming Pool Song Calendar Song Shelter In Place Return To Oz Mountain Song SuperNatural Possession Hanging Tree Please Leave Why Kant I Be You Ice Cream Song The Magic Point (Bitter Green Dream) Blood & Thunder So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Fuck Of Old Friend (Stay Alive) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Laura Jane Grace and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Laura Jane Grace Hole In My Head Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP Released 16th February 2024 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Laura Jane Grace Hole In My Head £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM340V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laura Jane Grace At War With The Silverfish Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 10", EP/Mini Album Released 20th May 2022 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Laura Jane Grace At War With The Silverfish £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM312V Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 20th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Just Mustard Heart Under Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Partisan Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th May 2022 £18.00 - £19.00 Select options Just Mustard Heart Under £18.00 - £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Partisan Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th May 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Joyce Manor Cody Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joyce Manor Cody £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092748314 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | KGLW | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th July 2023 £37.00 Select options King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation £37.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: KGLW Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th July 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Scratch, The Mind Yourself Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sony | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd November 2023 £25.00 - £29.00 Select options Scratch, The Mind Yourself £25.00 - £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sony Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View letlive If I’m The Devil… Indies Only Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th June 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders letlive If I’m The Devil… Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092739237 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hold Steady, The Almost Killed Me Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | French Kiss | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th November 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hold Steady, The Almost Killed Me £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: French Kiss SKU: FKR0861 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Live Do Nothing Hiraeth & Loathing Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Specialist Subject | 1LP Released 21st October 2022 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Live Do Nothing Hiraeth & Loathing £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Specialist Subject SKU: SPS099 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Therapy? 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