Gina Birch of the Raincoats has introduced her second solo studio album. The brand new album, Bother, is out July 11 by way of Third Man Data. Main the follow-up to 2023’s I Play My Bass Loud is “Inflicting Bother Once more.” Under, watch the brand new music’s music video.
Birch directed her new music video with Dean Chalkley. She stars within the video together with her Raincoats co-founder Ana da Silva, Neo Naturists artist Christine Binnie, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby, X-Ray Spex’s Lora Logic, painter Daisy Parris, visible artist Georgina Starr, writer Jill Westwood, artist and activist Bobby Baker, costume designer Annie Symons, British photographer Shirley O’Loughlin, and others.
In an announcement about her new video, Birch mentioned:
For the “Inflicting Bother Once more” video, after listening to Bob Dylan sing a couple of white ladder all lined with water, I grew to become 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 needed to have a choreographed motion with 4 of us with these ladders. How will we transfer with ladders? Will we transfer collectively, will we combat, will we dance?
I additionally needed to reference the wind scene from the movie The Color of Pomegranates, and to incorporate as many artist girls from the Ladies in Revolt exhibition as I may. I needed them to be troublesome, or simply to shout “Inflicting bother!” I ended up inviting all of the artist musician girls I knew who may make the shoot, and it was a unbelievable assembly of nice girls, lots of whom had by no means met one another earlier than.
Learn in regards to the Raincoats’ Odyshape in “The 200 Finest Albums of the Eighties.”
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Bother:
01 I Thought I’d Dwell Without end
02 Happiness
03 Inflicting Bother Once more
04 Cello Music
05 Hold to the Left
06 Doom Monger
07 Don’t Battle Your Pals
08 Nothing Will Ever Change That
09 Hey Hey
10 Sleep
11 Prepare Platform
