Gina Birch Shares Title Track Of Debut Solo Album 'I Play My Bass Loud'
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Eva Vermandel
The Raincoats' Gina Birch has shared the title track of her debut solo album.
Ominous and atmospheric, I Play My Bass Loud marks the latest preveiw from the record, following lead single Wish I Was You featuring Thurston Moore. Head below to view the accompanying Vice Cooler-directed video. Birch explained in a statement:
"Vice asked his long-term friend writer, dancer and choreographer, Oakland based, Brontez Purnell to be the central character of the video. There are five women bass players performing in the video, Emily Elhaj (Angel Olsen), Hazel Rigby (TBHQ), Mikki Itzigsohn (Small Wigs), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and myself. We shot the video in L.A. so the bass players in the video are not primarily the ones on the track apart from Emily Elhaj who plays bass with Angel Olson and Gina B. The song is a celebration of bass guitar as a voice, simple or layered, pounding or dancing or everything at once. A celebration of a shout, a yell from the window, and the I am Here, of a woman's creativity on the bass guitar. I play my bass, my bass my bass my bass, I play my bass loud."
'I Play My Bass Loud' is out on February 24 via Third Man Records. Following the release, Birch will play a handful of UK shows in March. Tickets are on sale.
Gina Birch Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue March 21 2023 - BRIGHTON Hope and Ruin
Wed March 22 2023 - LONDON Oslo
Mon March 27 2023 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Mon April 24 2023 - GLASGOW Hug And Pint
Tue April 25 2023 - DUBLIN Whelans
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