Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes announce new album ‘Journey Membership’ with capitalism-bashing single ‘Mine Me Mine’

Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes have introduced particulars of a brand new album referred to as ‘Journey Membership’. Discover out extra under, together with the lead single ‘Mine Me Mine’.

The forthcoming file is about for launch on July 18 by way of Polyvinyl, and is described as a set of 12 songs that discover archetypical hero’s journey tropes. It touches on themes of affection, conflict, belief, betrayal, advantage and vice.

For Grace, the inspiration for the album arose throughout her month-long songwriting retreat in Greece, and got here along with assist from a Fellowship grant from the Onassis Basis.

The LP options varied collaborations too, together with vocal contributions from Grace’s spouse Paris Campbell Grace, and Athens-based musicians Jacopo “Jack” Fokas and Orestis Lagadinos – who function on bass and drums respectively.

In addition to saying the brand new file, immediately (March 25) additionally sees the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist drop the lead single. This comes within the type of the energetic, defiant monitor ‘Mine Me Mine’, which sees her take intention at capitalism.

Test it out under, and pre-order the album here.

“‘Journey Membership is often a file about studying to take up house, about feeling free to be your self because the bullshit of our ahistoric second mounts,” reads a brand new press launch.

“Protest songs and private tunes have by no means been a binary for Grace, and she or he delivers a few of her most profound – and, sure, playful – work ever at that exact intersection right here. However essentially the most distinguished thread by means of Journey Membership’s dozen tracks is one in every of evolution, of letting your self turn into one thing new.”

Alongside the information of the forthcoming album and new lead single, Laura Jane Grace has additionally shared particulars of a North American tour going down this summer time.

The reveals will run from April to August this yr, and see the artist joined by the likes of Homicide By Demise, Alex Lahey, PET NEEDS and Rodeo Boys.

Discover a listing of reveals under, 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 Stay *
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 Field *
12 — Pioneertown, CA — Pappy & Harriet’s *
13 — Los Angeles, CA — Teragram Ballroom *
15 — Ventura, CA — Ventura Music Corridor *
16 — Felton, CA — Felton Music Corridor *
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 & Corridor * (SOLD OUT)

MAY
21 — Lawrence, KS — Granada Theater ~
22 — Oklahoma Metropolis, OK — Beer Metropolis Music Corridor ~
25 — Las Vegas, NV — Punk Rock Bowling

JUNE
19 — Newport, KY — Southgate Home ^
20 — Detroit, MI — St. Andrew’s Corridor ^
21 — Toronto, ON — Danforth Music Corridor ^
22 — Montreal, QC — Le Studio TD ^
23 — Woodstock, NY —  Bearsville Theater ^
25 — Norwalk CT — District Music Corridor ^
26 — Portland, ME — State Theatre ^
27 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Membership ^
28 — Brooklyn, NY — Warsaw ^
29 — Asbury Park, NJ — Asbury Lanes ^

JULY
1 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Grog Store ^ (SOLD OUT)
2 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Grog Store ^ (SOLD OUT)
5 — Pelham, TN — The Caverns ^ (SOLD OUT)
10 — Baltimore, MD — Union Craft Brewing ^
11 — Washington, DC — Black Cat ^
12 — Philadelphia, PA — Union Switch ^
13 — Pittsburgh, PA — Mr. Smalls ^
15 — Grand Rapids, MI — The Pyramid Scheme ^ (SOLD OUT)
16 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Corridor ^
17 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Corridor ^
18 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee ^
19 — Minneapolis, MN — First Avenue ^
20 — Maquoketa, IA — Codfish Hole Barnstormers ^ (SOLD OUT)
21 — St. Louis, MO — Delmar Corridor ^ (SOLD OUT)

AUGUST
21 — Denver, CO — Gothic Theatre ^
22 — Denver, CO — Gothic Theatre ^

* — w/ Alex Lahey, Rodeo Boys
~ — w/ PET NEEDS
^ — supporting Homicide By Demise

In different Laura Jane Grace information, final yr the singer spoke to NME about her album ‘Gap In My Head’ and seemed again on the tenth anniversary of the seminal punk album ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’.

“It’s wild, pondering that it’s been a full decade,” she mentioned of the latter. “All of it feels very instant, prefer it was yesterday. I’m very grateful for the whole lot that occurred round that file, I’m very pleased with that file.”

“I have a look at the place I used to be then and I’m like, ‘Was that even me?’ Like, ‘Was that actuality?’ ‘Did I dwell that life as a result of it couldn’t have been extra totally different than this?” she added.

“On the time after I was writing the file, I used to be, for almost all of it, closeted. I hadn’t even come out but. The quantity of adjustments that occurred even inside a yr after popping out had been so fucking mind-bending and so enormous. Then to think about the whole lot that occurred over the course of ten years is wild. I can’t even wrap my head round it.”