Shape Shift with Me

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Shape Shift with Me
Shape Shift with Me artwork.jpg
Studio album by
Against Me!
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2016 (2016-09-16)
RecordedOctober 2015 to April 2016
StudioRancho Recordo
Genre
Length38:26
Label Total Treble, Xtra Mile
Producer Laura Jane Grace, Marc Hudson
Against Me! chronology
23 Live Sex Acts
(2015)		Shape Shift with Me
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 7.4/10 [1]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Shape Shift with Me is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band Against Me!, released on September 16, 2016 on Total Treble Music and Xtra Mile. The title is a lyric from the song "Norse Truth", which appears as track 10. [5] Shape Shift with Me features a shift in vocal style on many of its songs, with Grace hailed for a more spoken word-like structure in her singing on songs such as "12:03", "333" and "Norse Truth". [5] [6]

Contents

No non-promotional singles have been released from the album. However, both of the B-sides recorded for the album, as identified from the band's publishing catalogue, "Stabitha Christie" [7] and "First High of the Morning", [8] were released on a 7" single to mark Record Store Day 2017. [9] It is the group's only studio album recorded with bass player Inge Johansson.

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeYearRankRef.
American Songwriter Top 50 Albums of 20162016
30

Track listing

All tracks are written by Against Me!, except where noted

Shape Shift with Me [11] [12]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."ProVision L-3"Grace [13] 1:55
2."12:03" 2:56
3."Boyfriend" Laura Jane Grace, Cody Votolato, Marc Hudson [14] 3:55
4."Crash"Grace [15] 2:35
5."Delicate, Petite & Other Things I'll Never Be" 4:17
6."333" 3:17
7."Haunting, Haunted, Haunts" 2:25
8."Dead Rats" 4:08
9."Rebecca" 2:38
10."Norse Truth"Grace, Votolato [16] 3:07
11."Suicide Bomber"Grace, Willard [17] 3:37
12."All This (And More)" 3:36
Total length:38:26

Personnel

Against Me!

Additional musicians

Production

Design

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [20] 61
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [21] 72
Scottish Albums (OCC) [22] 74
US Billboard 200 [23] 80
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [24] 5

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