Following the success of 2020’s Stay Alive, Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) returns with a new EP – At War With The Silverfish.<\/p>\n
These are songs of late night madness and loneliness, orphan songs that came wandering in looking to feed like insects,\u201d Laura Jane Grace says of her new EP.<\/p>\n
Half recorded at Grace\u2019s TinyQuietStudio in Chicago and half recorded at Electric Eel in St. Louis, and mixed by her Devouring Mothers bandmate Marc Hudson, At War With The Silverfish finds Grace in a range of stripped-back, poignant modes that amount to an honest and holistic account of our shared humanity. Unafraid to spotlight open wounds and tangled feelings, Grace conveys the distinctive pluck that has defined her work with Against Me! and The Devouring Mothers, but with the intimate energy of home recording with an acoustic guitar. The album is not a clarion call, but a tender invitation. It is a necessary capsule of a woman\u2019s artistic pulse; love, longing and loneliness told in affecting turns of phrase.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree of hearts\/Two of them are broken\/One of them is gold\/All of them are worthless,\u201d she sings on opener \u201cThree of Hearts,\u201d admitting later that she\u2019s the \u201c…surest sucker that you\u2019ll ever see.\u201d This vulnerable posture drives much of that album, like on \u201cLolo 13,\u201d where Grace pines for a love she never had, and on \u201cYesterday Pt. II,\u201d where she remembers a lover\u2019s goodbye with visceral intensity. \u201cI know I sound insane,\u201d she repeats three times on the latter, imparting anxiety and resolve at once. It\u2019s a device she employs through the record, deftly illustrating the mental gymnastics on the roads to self doubt and self acceptance.<\/p>\n
Amid the emotional outpouring are piercing scenes of isolated domestic life \u2014 the endless cups of reheated java (\u201cDay Old Coffee\u201d), the relief of reconnecting with an old friend (\u201cElectro-Static Sweep\u201d). And then there is her old friend, Chicago, a city by now her home but not without its pain points. \u201cWay out here on the edge of oblivion\/May as well be Skokie, you\u2019d have been so lucky for Berwyn,\u201d she sings on \u201cLong Dark Night,\u201d surveying the landscape of her new Northside home, not the \u201chip\u201d part of town but one vital to its cultural diversity.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the album\u2019s interiority, Grace acknowledges the universal nature of many of its themes \u2014 how her highly personal accounts bloom into broader human connection. \u201cI’ve learned that if you share your experience with good intentions that the universe will always surprise you with abundant return,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery song is an act of faith; you don’t necessarily know why you’re singing it other than you know you’ve got to sing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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