Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes have announced details of a new album called ‘Adventure Club’. Find out more below, along with the lead single ‘Mine Me Mine’.
The forthcoming record is set for release on July 18 via Polyvinyl, and is described as a collection of 12 songs that explore archetypical hero’s journey tropes. It touches on themes of love, war, trust, betrayal, virtue and vice.
For Grace, the inspiration for the album arose during her month-long songwriting retreat in Greece, and came together with help from a Fellowship grant from the Onassis Foundation.
The LP features various collaborations too, including vocal contributions from Grace’s wife Paris Campbell Grace, and Athens-based musicians Jacopo “Jack” Fokas and Orestis Lagadinos – who feature on bass and drums respectively.
As well as announcing the new record, today (March 25) also sees the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist drop the lead single. This comes in the form of the energetic, defiant track ‘Mine Me Mine’, which sees her take aim at capitalism.
Check it out below, and pre-order the album here.
“‘Adventure Club is frequently a record about learning to take up space, about feeling free to be yourself as the bullshit of our ahistoric moment mounts,” reads a new press release.
“Protest songs and personal tunes have never been a binary for Grace, and she delivers some of her most profound – and, yes, playful – work ever at that particular intersection here. But the most prominent thread through Adventure Club’s dozen tracks is one of evolution, of letting yourself become something new.”
Alongside the news of the forthcoming album and new lead single, Laura Jane Grace has also shared details of a North American tour taking place this summer.
The shows will run from April to August this year, and see the artist joined by the likes of Murder By Death, Alex Lahey, PET NEEDS and Rodeo Boys.
Find a list of shows below, and visit here to buy tickets.
Laura Jane Grace’s upcoming tour dates are:
APRIL
1 — St. Louis, MO — Off Broadway *
2 — Des Moines, IA — xBk Live *
4 — Fort Collins, CO — Aggie Theatre *
5 — Denver, CO — Meow Wolf * (SOLD OUT)
6 — Colorado Springs, CO — The Black Sheep *
8 — Santa Fe, NM — Meow Wolf *
9 — Phoenix, AZ — Crescent Ballroom *
11 — San Diego, CA — Music Box *
12 — Pioneertown, CA — Pappy & Harriet’s *
13 — Los Angeles, CA — Teragram Ballroom *
15 — Ventura, CA — Ventura Music Hall *
16 — Felton, CA — Felton Music Hall *
18 — Berkeley, CA — Cornerstone Berkeley *
19 — Petaluma, CA — Mystic Theatre *
21 — Bend, OR — The Domino Room *
22 — Portland, OR — Holocene * (SOLD OUT)
23 — Bellingham, WA — Wild Buffalo *
24 — Seattle, WA — Neumos *
25 — Spokane, WA — District Bar *
27 — Billings, MT — Pub Station *
29 — Sioux Falls, SD — Icon Lounge *
30 — Saint Paul, MN — Amsterdam Bar & Hall * (SOLD OUT)
MAY
21 — Lawrence, KS — Granada Theater ~
22 — Oklahoma City, OK — Beer City Music Hall ~
25 — Las Vegas, NV — Punk Rock Bowling
JUNE
19 — Newport, KY — Southgate House ^
20 — Detroit, MI — St. Andrew’s Hall ^
21 — Toronto, ON — Danforth Music Hall ^
22 — Montreal, QC — Le Studio TD ^
23 — Woodstock, NY — Bearsville Theater ^
25 — Norwalk CT — District Music Hall ^
26 — Portland, ME — State Theatre ^
27 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club ^
28 — Brooklyn, NY — Warsaw ^
29 — Asbury Park, NJ — Asbury Lanes ^
JULY
1 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Grog Shop ^ (SOLD OUT)
2 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Grog Shop ^ (SOLD OUT)
5 — Pelham, TN — The Caverns ^ (SOLD OUT)
10 — Baltimore, MD — Union Craft Brewing ^
11 — Washington, DC — Black Cat ^
12 — Philadelphia, PA — Union Transfer ^
13 — Pittsburgh, PA — Mr. Smalls ^
15 — Grand Rapids, MI — The Pyramid Scheme ^ (SOLD OUT)
16 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Hall ^
17 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Hall ^
18 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee ^
19 — Minneapolis, MN — First Avenue ^
20 — Maquoketa, IA — Codfish Hollow Barnstormers ^ (SOLD OUT)
21 — St. Louis, MO — Delmar Hall ^ (SOLD OUT)
AUGUST
21 — Denver, CO — Gothic Theatre ^
22 — Denver, CO — Gothic Theatre ^
* — w/ Alex Lahey, Rodeo Boys
~ — w/ PET NEEDS
^ — supporting Murder By Death
In other Laura Jane Grace news, last year the singer spoke to NME about her album ‘Hole In My Head’ and looked back on the 10th anniversary of the seminal punk album ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’.
“It’s wild, thinking that it’s been a full decade,” she said of the latter. “It all feels very immediate, like it was yesterday. I’m very grateful for everything that happened around that record, I’m very proud of that record.”
“I look at where I was then and I’m like, ‘Was that even me?’ Like, ‘Was that reality?’ ‘Did I live that life because it couldn’t have been more different than this?” she added.
“At the time when I was writing the record, I was, for the majority of it, closeted. I hadn’t even come out yet. The amount of changes that happened even within a year after coming out were so fucking mind-bending and so huge. Then to think of everything that happened over the course of ten years is wild. I can’t even wrap my head around it.”
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