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Laura Jane Grace wasn't planning on making a solo record this year. In fact, she was planning on making a record with Against Me!, the band she’s fronted for the past 23 years. As she sat at home, all of her tours canceled, and the members of Against Me!—as well as her other band Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers—spread across the country, she was left with a batch of songs and no band to record them with.

"I sat around for a month-and-a-half at a home just being shellshocked being like, ‘What the fuck happened and what the fuck is happening with the world?’ As I started to get my bearings, I just came to the realization that waiting was going to kill the record and kill the songs."

So, Grace got to work. She picked up the phone and called Electrical Audio, the iconic studio in her adopted hometown of Chicago, Illinois, to ask if she could make a record with famed engineer Steve Albini. The goal was to go in and document these songs exactly as she’d been playing them in her home, straight to analog tape. When she hung up the phone, she had four days booked.

Recorded with nothing more than an acoustic guitar, an occasional drum machine, and her own powerful voice, Grace's distinct songwriting signature is front and center. What’s more, she made it purely for herself. "I just want to put this out because it makes me feel alive and it’s giving me something better than sitting here losing my mind while the world falls apart," says Grace. "It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks about what you do. Just stay alive."