Source: Press
Punk rock legends Against Me! have announced that they will release their seventh studio album Shape Shift With Me on September 16th via Xtra Mile Recordings, as well as touring the album with a string of UK dates in December.
Shape Shift With Me has been recorded, mixed and engineered by Marc Jacob Hudson (Taking Back Sunday, Saves The Day) at Rancho Recordo, and follows themes of love, which Laura has seemingly avoided with her band’s previous releases.
About the record Laura says “Tons of people have written about love. But while love is cliché, it’s infinitely relevant…for me, having always been in a punk band that was expected to be political, I never felt like I had that option to write about feelings in that way. That’s what I ended up being drawn to this time. It’s writing in a way I thought I could never write before, and not giving a shit about expectations. Is there a record that is about relationships from a trans perspective?”
“There needs to be more records about trans rights and everything like that, but feeling like I already did that, I wanted to move on to write commentary on living from a trans perspective. I wanted to write the transgender response to the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St., Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville and the Streets’ A Grand Don’t Come For Free. All those records are relationship records. There’s been an infinite amount of records talking about what love means from a cisgender perspective. I wanted to present the trans perspective on sex, love and heartbreak…it was just about opening up to whatever comes my way karmically…whatever everyone in the band is willing to offer, I just wanted to be open to it. I didn’t want it to be like what it was in the past where it may have felt closed. I want it to be different.”
Laura also announced the release of her upcoming memoir titled TRANNY: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, set for release on November 15th through Hachette Books.
The band are heading out on tour in December to celebrate the album, here is where you can catch them:
DECEMBER
06. Birmingham O2 Academy 2
07. Manchester Academy 2
08. London Electric Ballroom
09. Glasgow Garage
10. Bristol SWX
11. Nottingham Rescue Rooms
