Causing Trouble Again

Former Raincoat GINA BIRCH Has Her 2nd Bass Trippy Solo LP ‘TROUBLE’ Out

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14 July 2025

Back in the day (1977-1984), British punkettes THE RAINCOATS
were one of the top indie bands in the UK. They released 3 LPs,
then called it a day.

In 1993, they reunited, fabricated another album (1996),
launched reissues and rarities and gigged now and then.

Co-founder/bassist GINA BURCH was/is very active as
a film/videomaker. She worked for big names such as
The Libertines and New Order.

In 2023, she released her critically acclaimed solo debut
LP I Play My Bass. It was released through Jack White’s
Third Man Records.


New album artwork

Album: TROUBLE
Her 2nd one, again released
via the former white stripe’s
record label.

Press info: Trouble is a patchwork of sorts: its 11 songs are not only eclectic
in genre but play like stitched-together vignettes, fly-on-the-wall scenes in which
Gina describes meeting a stranger on a train, or a flare up with her teenage daughter,
or the nostalgia of driving past a certain part of your neighborhood that’s been
unchanged for as long as you can remember.

It’s the politics of the everyday, a work that is feminist not because of slogans
or placards, but because it’s a candid portrait of a female artist simply existing.

As such, the connecting factor that links all the songs on Trouble together isn’t one
single ideology or theme or topic, but Gina herself. It’s her vision, informed by her
status as a rock icon, her voice as a forward-thinking artist, and her perspective as someone who just thinks life should be a bit of a laugh sometimes.

Birch: “It’s a bit out there, a bit off the tracks, and I always like to go there. I unofficially subtitled the album ‘Trouble I’ve Caused and Trouble I’m In’, so the songs are based around
that feeling—that dangerous place to be.”

“These songs came to me like a radio tuning, the airwaves going along, and I just plucked them out of the air. Something just clicks in the atmosphere, and I just take it. I’m not writing an opus about one thing. I’m writing an opus about being me.”

TUTV: Hey, all you people in trouble out there (the whole planet, I guess, each one in his/her own way) close your eyes and let your ears get massaged by this introspective, soul-searching record. You’ll feel like being in the middle of a gratifying dream with no intention whatsoever to wake up soon. Well, that’s what my troubled inner ego experienced.

Birch moves and grooves in dub bass motion juiced with swollen, resounded orchestrations here and there, while reggae echoes add a party feel. Most of all
Trouble entertains your confused 2025 state of mind. Its slow/fast trippy swagger
has a hip-shaking impact and her expressive vocals fit the full picture as a glove.
Stay yourself, stay in trouble, doom monger. I’m sure the late great dub wizard
Lee “Scratch” Perry would have loved this kind of sonic trouble too.

Jack White has (as we actually already knew)
acumen ears and the late great dub expert.

Highlights: the two singles, I Thought I’d Live Forever, Cello Song,
Don’t Fight Your Friends and Nothing Will Ever Change That.

Singles

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Raincoat GINA BIRCH Releases 2nd Solo LP In July – Hear Her Feminist Anthem ‘CAUSING TROUBLE AGAIN’

Posted on by JL

Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

9 May 2025

Back in the day (1977-1984) British punkettes THE RAINCOATS
were one of the top indie bands in the UK. They released 3 LPs,
then called it a day.

In 1993 they reunited, fabricated another album (1996),
launched reissues and rarities and gigged now and then.

Co-founder/bassist GINA BURCH was/is very active as a film/videomaker
(she worked for big names such as The Libertines and New Order and
worked with other musicians such as Red Crayola .

In 2023 she released her critically acclaimed solo debut
LP I Play My Bass . It was released through Jack White’s
Third Man Records.


New album artwork

She just announced the upcoming birth of her 2nd one.
It’s named Trouble and will land on 11 July, again via
Third Man Records.

Along with the news comes first single CAUSING TROUBLE AGAIN.
A vigorous anthem citing a cast of women who’ve stirred shit up over
the years such as Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Mary Douglas, Peaches, Dolly
Parton, Sinead O’Connor and a lot of heroines more.

Birch about the accompanying video “After hearing Bob Dylan sing about a white
ladder all covered with water, I became obsessed with white ladders. I decided to use
five white ladders, three with seven rungs. realized later that this references Jacob’s Ladder
and a connection from Earth to heaven, but I think I was thinking of ladders as a symbol of getting on, getting up. I wanted to have a choreographed movement with four of us with these ladders. How do we move with ladders? Do we move together, do we fight, do we dance?”

I also wanted to reference the wind scene from the film, The Colour of Pomegranates, and to include as many artist women from the Women in Revolt exhibition as I could. I wanted them
to be troublesome, or just to shout “Causing trouble!” I ended up inviting all the artist musician women I knew who could make the shoot, and it was a fantastic meeting of great women, many of whom had never met each other before.”

Wake up, and listen to the riot
raincoat girl rockin’ again.

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