Stay Alive

AlbumOct 01 / 202014 songs, 29m 20s
Singer-Songwriter Folk Punk Indie Folk
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6.8 / 10

The Against Me! frontwoman intended to record these bracing songs with her main band before the pandemic sidelined that plan. Her austere solo version feels like a pale shadow of the real thing.

8 / 10

Laura Jane Grace offers a beating heart on solo surprise release Stay Alive

4 / 5

Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace sends out postcards from the edge on surprise solo album, Stay Alive

Folk-punk at its most sincere.

A record of songs meant for her band Against Me! have made their way into the world as a Laura Jane Grace solo album. Read our review.

Released without warning at the start of October 2020, Stay Alive is undoubtedly a COVID-19 quarantine album, a record whose very existence is due to an artist coping with enforced isolation.

7 / 10

The lockdown album is set to be a major trope over the next 18 months, as musicians, songwriters, and producers allow their quarantined status to become