Raincoats co-founder Gina Burch is following up her 2023 solo debut album I Play My Bass Loud with a second solo LP. Bother is dropping July, and together with the announcement we get a music video for its thesis assertion and title monitor of kinds.
“Inflicting Bother Once more” is a convincing feminist manifesto as rock ‘n’ roll music. It finds Birch shouting out a plethora of girls who’ve stirred shit up over time. And within the video, co-directed by Birch and Dean Chalkey, she seems alongside many such figures together with Raincoats bandmate Ana da Silva, Christine Binnie, Amy Rigby, Lora Logic, Daisy Parris, Georgina Starr, Jill Westwood, Bobby Baker, Annie Symons, Shirley O’Loughlin, and extra.
For the “Inflicting Bother Once more” video, after listening to Bob Dylan sing a few white ladder all lined with water, I turned obsessive about white ladders. I made a decision to make use of 5 white ladders, three with seven rungs…I spotted later that this references Jacob’s Ladder and a connection from Earth to heaven, however I believe I used to be pondering of ladders as a logo of getting on, getting up. I wished to have a choreographed motion with 4 of us with these ladders. How can we transfer with ladders? Can we transfer collectively, can we combat, can we dance?
I additionally wished to reference the wind scene from the movie, The Color of Pomegranates, and to incorporate as many artist ladies from the Girls in Revolt exhibition as I might. I wished them to be troublesome, or simply to shout “Inflicting hassle!” I ended up inviting all of the artist musician ladies I knew who might make the shoot, and it was a implausible assembly of nice ladies, lots of whom had by no means met one another earlier than.
Watch beneath.
TRACKLIST:
01 “I Thought I’d Reside Without end”
02 “Happiness”
03 “Inflicting Bother Once more”
04 “Cello Tune”
05 “Preserve To The Left”
06 “Doom Monger”
07 “Don’t Combat Your Associates”
08 “Nothing Will Ever Change That”
09 “Hey Hey”
10 “Practice Platform”
11 “Sleep” (Digital-Solely Bonus Monitor)
Bother is out 7/11 on Third Man. Pre-order it right here.
