''Shape Shift with Me'' is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band

Against Me! Against Me! is an American punk rock band formed in 1997 in Naples, Florida, by singer and guitarist Laura Jane Grace. That same year, Grace moved to Gainesville, Florida, which is considered the band's hometown. Since 2001, the band's lineup ...

, 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. ''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". 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" and "First High of the Morning", were released on a 7" single to mark

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2017. It is the group's only studio album recorded with bass player

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Accolades

Track listing

Personnel

Against Me!

* Laura Jane Grace –

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, lead vocals, art direction * James Bowman – guitar, backing vocals *

–

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, backing vocals * Atom Willard –

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Additional musicians

* Marc Hudson – bass guitar (tracks 3, 11) * Masukaitenero –

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backing vocals (track 1) *

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– backing vocals (uncredited) (tracks 11, 12)

Production

* Marc Hudson – producer,

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* Stephen Marcussen – mastering * Stewart Whitmore – mastering

Design

* Christopher Norris – art direction * Steak Mtn – design, typography, and illustration

Charts

References

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