Bought to Rot
| Bought to Rot | ||||
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| Studio album by Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers | ||||
| Released | November 9, 2018 | |||
| Recorded | May–June 2018 | |||
| Studio | Rancho Recordo | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, indie rock, heartland rock | |||
| Length | 38:21 | |||
| Label | Bloodshot; Red Scare Industries (reissue) | |||
| Producer | Laura Jane Grace, Marc Hudson | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Line of Best Fit | 8/10 |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| Paste | 7.5/10 |
| Under the Radar | 5/10 |
| NME | |
Bought to Rot is the debut studio album by American rock band Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers. The group consists of Laura Jane Grace (lead singer of Against Me!), Atom Willard (drummer of Against Me!) and Marc Hudson (long-time sound engineer and collaborator with Against Me!). The album was released on November 9, 2018, on Bloodshot Records, a Chicago label that Grace approached when she discovered the label's headquarters was a few blocks from her residence. In 2022, Red Scare Industries "took over" the album from Bloodshot and began selling a new LP version with alternate artwork with by Grace.
The album's title refers to the difficulty of Grace having written the album's songs, but feeling that they were not suitable for an Against Me! record, which was expected to be the album Grace would release in 2018.