LAURA JANE GRACE 'STAY ALIVE' LP (Lapis Lazuli Blue Vinyl)

Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. The pandemic put a stop to several musicians' 2020 plans, but it also gave birth to some new ones. Laura Jane Grace wasn't going to make a solo album this year (Against Me! was going to make an album), but she ended up with a batch of songs and nothing to do with them, so she headed to Electrical Audio studio with Steve Albini at the boards, and she laid down 14 new songs with just her voice and acoustic guitar and sometimes a drum machine and a little distortion. Not only was the bare-bones approach caused by the pandemic, but a lot of the lyrics directly reflect this hellish year too. It's a raw, personal record unlike anything else Laura ever recorded, and it's a real gem in her discography.