Gina Birch Announces Debut Solo Album 'I Play My Bass Loud'
Tuesday, 08 November 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Eva Vermandel
Punk icon and The Raincoats' founding member, Gina Birch, has announced her debut solo album.
'I Play My Bass Loud' is out on February 24 via Third Man Records and features the newly unveiled single, Wish I Was You, a propulsive, punk-fuelled offering co-written and co-produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth.
Following 2021's Feminist Song, the biting track features Thurston Moore on guitar, and comes with a video directed by Birch's daughter Honey. Birch said in a statement:
"The album distils my years of musical, political, and artistic life with these genre-breaking songs. It’s a personal diary using sounds and lyrics, full of fun, rage, and storytelling."
The Raincoats released four studio albums, beginning with their 1979 self-titled debut and concluding with 1996's 'Looking In The Shadows'.
Birch has a handful of UK tour dates in the diary for March. She'll also play The Blue Basement at London's Third Man Records on November 11.
'I Play My Bass Loud' tracklist:
1. I Play My Bass Loud
2. And Then It Happened
3. Wish I Was You
4. Big Mouth
5. Pussy Riot
6. I Am Rage
7. I Will Never Wear Stilettos
8. Dance Like a Demon
9. Digging Down
10. Feminist Song
11. Let’s Go Crazy
Gina Birch Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue March 21 2023 - BRIGHTON Hope and Ruin
Wed March 22 2023 - LONDON Oslo
Fri March 24 2023 - GLASGOW Hug And Pint
Sat March 25 2023 - DUBLIN Whelans
Mon March 27 2023 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
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