Transgender Dysphoria Blues
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| Studio album by Against Me! | ||||
| Released | January 21, 2014 | |||
| Recorded | Total Treble Studios, Elkton, Florida Studio 606, Los Angeles, California Earthsound Recording, Valdosta, GA Motor Studios, San Francisco, CA |
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| Genre | Punk rock, alternative rock, folk punk, queercore, riot grrrl | |||
| Length | 28:43 | |||
| Label | Total Treble, Xtra Mile | |||
| Producer | Laura Jane Grace | |||
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| Singles from Transgender Dysphoria Blues | ||||
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Censored version
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 82/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Absolute Punk | 9/10 |
| AllMusic |   |
| Alternative Press |  |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| NOW Magazine | |
| Paste Magazine | 9.3/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.5/10 |
| PopMatters | 8/10 |
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| The Guardian | |
Transgender Dysphoria Blues is the sixth studio album by punk band Against Me!. The album was released on January 21, 2014 by Total Treble Music and Xtra Mile Recordings. The album deals with gender dysphoria, following the coming out of Laura Jane Grace as a transgender woman.
The band first announced work on a new album in November 2011 The first sessions for the album were a false start, where the band started recording some basic tracks and then went on tour, and decided to scrap and start over when they got back from tour. Then, the record was completely recorded except for vocals when drummer Jay Weinberg quit the band. The band first tried to have fill-in drummer Atom Willard record drum tracks to match the previously recorded tracks, but it wasn't working. Starting from scratch, the band began recording the album a final time at Studio 606 in February 2013. In May 2013, long-time bassist Andrew Seward also left the band. A month later, Fat Mike of NOFX joined the band in the studio, playing on three songs, two of which appear on the album. That same month, tracking for the album was completed.
Will Hermes of Rolling Stone rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, and called it "A series of bracing songs about a self-destructive girl in a boy's body, it's a thematic offspring of Lou Reed (see Berlin, etc.)", and noted how "it takes balls to come out this way, in this genre" wishing Laura "God-speed, sister." Also, Hermes said that the album musically "sticks to the band's established brand of warrior-cry punk metal", and this "limits the range of what might be an ever braver new world, one glimpsed on the softer acoustic 'Two Coffins.'"
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 23, their highest debut yet on the chart. It also debuted at No. 6 on Top Rock Albums, with 10,000 copies sold in its first week. It has sold 45,000 copies in the United States as of August 2016.
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