Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes announce new album ‘Adventure Club’ with capitalism-bashing single ‘Mine Me Mine’

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Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes have announced details of a new album called ‘Adventure Club’. Find out more below, along with the lead single ‘Mine Me Mine’.The forthcoming record is set for release on July 18 via Polyvinyl, and is described as a collection of 12 songs that explore archetypical hero’s journey tropes.

It touches on themes of love, war, trust, betrayal, virtue and vice.For Grace, the inspiration for the album arose during her month-long songwriting retreat in Greece, and came together with help from a Fellowship grant from the Onassis Foundation.The LP features various collaborations too, including vocal contributions from Grace’s wife Paris Campbell Grace, and Athens-based musicians Jacopo “Jack” Fokas and Orestis Lagadinos – who feature on bass and drums respectively.As well as announcing the new record, today (March 25) also sees the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist drop the lead single.

This comes in the form of the energetic, defiant track ‘Mine Me Mine’, which sees her take aim at capitalism.Check it out below, and pre-order the album here.“‘Adventure Club is frequently a record about learning to take up space, about feeling free to be yourself as the bullshit of our ahistoric moment mounts,” reads a new press release.“Protest songs and personal tunes have never been a binary for Grace, and she delivers some of her most profound – and, yes, playful – work ever at that particular intersection here.