Death By Rock And Roll

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Taylor Momsen:

We spent over a year recording the album and it’s all in there. There was no hiding from it. It took everything we had to make this record. In fact, it felt like we were making the first album again. That’s the thing we had with “Light Me Up”, we threw everything we had at that album, too. And we did that again this time.

– via Kerrang!

In a lot of ways, this new album feels like a rebirth […]

– via Loudwire

I think that this album, in a lot of ways, I almost look at this record like it’s our first record, in the sense that we went through a lot, and it took a lot to make this, and it very much feels like a re-birth for us. This record it full-on just encompasses rock and roll from every end of the spectrum, obviously, you haven’t heard the whole album. ‘Death By Rock and Roll’ is just the start and the kind of taste of it, but it really covers the spectrum of rock and roll, at least where I would like to see rock and roll again now. I‘d like to see it shoved into the forefront of the industry again, especially in hard times. In times we’re in right now, rock and roll is salvation, rock and roll is freedom, it represents such a powerful… it’s just such a powerful art form. It has been for years. It’s never really been the “mainstream”. Rock and roll has always been on the outskirts, but when it connects with people, and when it hits, when people get it, and it connects deep down, in a way a lot of other music might not. There’s layers to it, there’s a lot of depth.

– via The Knockturnal

Paper Magazine published an exclusive interview on December 12, 2020 in which Taylor Momsen speaks about the album, specifically in regards to the loss she experienced in the lead up to and the recording of the album:

It’s very much a rebirth for this band. It feels like the first record in so many ways of just that pure, raw inspiration that you can’t control, and in the sense that we had to learn to do everything from the beginning again. We had to completely start from scratch because it was the first album we’ve ever made without Kato. So it was a lot of learning, a lot of growing, a lot of pain, a lot of struggle, but I think at the end of it, we really did create something extraordinarily special that I’m so proud of.

Paper Magazine published an exclusive interview on December 12, 2020 in which Taylor Momsen talks about the title of the album:

“Death By Rock and Roll” was a line that Kato used to say all the time. It was an ethic and a motto that we lived our lives by, and that I still live my life by to this day. It’s very much a battle cry for life, and I think this album actually has a lot of hope in it.

In the cover story of Kerrang! Magazine for the fourth week of January 2021, Taylor Momsen is quoted saying:

When I finally started to put pen to paper and write about everything I was feeling and thinking and going through, that became this very cathartic outlet. It’s always been a cathartic outlet, but I didn’t think it was something I could turn to because I was very lost. I was so lost.

I didn’t have to try to write this album. As a writer, inspiration is always something that you always struggle to find, whereas for this record, I had an influx of inspiration whether I wanted it or not. It was this brick that slammed me in the face and went, ​'Here. Here, Taylor. You want something to write about? Here.‘ So I didn’t have to try to write it, it kind of just poured out of me in a way that I can’t really describe. We had to start from scratch again, in a way. We’d never made an album without Kato before. We lost everything, so we had to really start again from the beginning and learn how to rebuild – both as individuals and together. And I think that that is this weird blessing and curse.

Yes, the album is dedicated to the late Kato Khandwala, The Pretty Reckless' long time producer and manager who had a fatal accident in 2018.

The Vinyl depicts a guitar with a caption that reads

FOREVER OUR WAVE
KATO KHANDWALA