{"id":3708,"date":"2025-07-16T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/laura-jane-graces-big-adventure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:30:00","slug":"laura-jane-graces-big-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/laura-jane-graces-big-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Jane Grace\u2019s Big \u2018Adventure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/ljg1CreditPinelopi-Gerasimou.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"(Credit: Pinelopi Gerasimou)\"><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s your litmus test for Laura Jane Grace\u2019s latest: What\u2019s your reaction to the lyric, \u201cDoes your god have a big, fat dick, \u2019cause it feels like he\u2019s fucking me\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you laughed or pumped your fist in the air, this album is for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/janes-addiction-members-sue-perry-farrell\/\">Jane\u2019s Addiction Members Sue Perry Farrell Over 2024 Tour Debacle<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/jeff-buckley-documentary-trailer\/\">See New Trailer From Jeff Buckley Documentary \u2018It\u2019s Never Over\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/robert-plant-new-album\/\">Robert Plant\u2019s \u2018Saving Grace\u2019 Leads With Low Cover<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you in any way recoiled, please move along.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, to anyone already aware of Grace, her ability to divide audiences is not surprising. First with her iconic band Against Me! and now as a solo artist with rotating backing bands, LJG has spent almost three decades turning the political, the personal, and the intersection of the two into earnest-yet-caustic, sledgehammer-hard punk anthems. She\u2019s a voice of catharsis to everyone who\u2019s angry at America\u2019s status quo, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/social-media-explodes-sanders-hosting-trans-musician-who-sang-pure-evil-song-anti-trump-rally\" target=\"_blank\">according to Fox News<\/a>, \u201cpure evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace\u2019s latest album, <em>Adventure Club <\/em>(July 18), follows suit, but with an unanticipated new element: <em>fun<\/em>. As in, Grace sounds like she\u2019s having genuine fun making this music. Her past albums have been a blast to listen to\u2014full of righteous, raging energy punctuated by the occasional darkly funny or ironic lyric\u2014but seemed to come from Grace\u2019s pain and anger. <em>Adventure Club<\/em> finds Grace creating from a lighter place. \u201cYou God (God\u2019s Dick)\u201d is a great example. Any of Grace\u2019s albums could include a critique of how organized religion is used to justify taking away another group\u2019s rights, but only this one features a Queen-esque choir intro and witty double entendres like \u201cIf he grows all the trees, does he taste every peach?\u201d And yes, it also features single entendres like, \u201cDoes he shoot wads of honey and cum twice on Easter Sunday?\u201d Fun doesn\u2019t have to always be clean or clever.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/adventure-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-468278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/adventure-club.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/adventure-club-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/adventure-club-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/adventure-club-498x498.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/figure>\n<p>One reason behind this shift could be that Grace wrote and recorded this album outside the U.S. Many of these songs came from Grace\u2019s time at an artist residency program in Athens, Greece. This change of scenery comes through subtly in the more global, \u201cYou\u2019re not the only one\u201d perspective of her anti-capitalist rocker \u201cMine Me Mine,\u201d and more explicitly in her ode to Grecian iced coffee, \u201cEspresso Freddie.\u201d The latter is as cheery a song as you\u2019ll find in Grace\u2019s catalog, but it\u2019s welcome here, as it\u2019s almost Grace\u2019s way of admitting that, yeah, she\u2019s allowing herself to enjoy life these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can also see this change in Grace welcoming her new wife, Paris Campbell Grace, onto the album. Paris provides vocals on all tracks and co-wrote two, including the grooving, playful \u201cWearing Black,\u201d which finds the couple carving out space for their unique queer identities by wearing black to the pride parade amidst the more standard, rainbow-clad LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe Grace\u2019s more confident, comfortable attitude is her discovering what it means to be punk in your mid-40s. She\u2019s still fighting the good fight, particularly on the album\u2019s closer, a beautifully sad slow-burn about life in prison, \u201cWalls.\u201d Yet many songs here\u2014and definitely the album\u2019s highlights\u2014find the singer accepting that her evolution is ongoing. She can be doing better <em>AND<\/em> still struggling, whether it\u2019s accepting that old highs won\u2019t be reached again (\u201cI Love to Get High\u201d), old pain can\u2019t be outrun (\u201cActive Trauma\u201d), and that even a life on the road in an underpaid punk band comes with certain joys if you know where to look (\u201cFree Cigarettes\u201d). And she\u2019s tackling it all with catchy melodies, driving riffs, and inviting harmonies that, honestly, might be a touch too polished for her more dogmatic punk fans. But not for me. I like this new space Grace has found for herself. Not that she cares. Grace might not be an artist for everyone, but <em>Adventure Club<\/em> shows she\u2019s happy doing things her way.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s your litmus test for Laura Jane Grace\u2019s latest: What\u2019s your reaction to the lyric, \u201cDoes your god have a big, fat dick, \u2019cause it feels like he\u2019s fucking me\u201d?\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1411,117,24,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laura-jane-grace","category-new-music","category-pushly","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}