Raincoats co-founder Gina Burch is following up her 2023 solo debut album I Play My Bass Loud with a second solo LP. Hassle is dropping July, and together with the announcement we get a music video for its thesis assertion and title observe of kinds.
“Inflicting Hassle Once more” is a powerful feminist manifesto as rock ‘n’ roll music. It finds Birch shouting out a plethora of ladies who’ve stirred shit up through the years. 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 Hassle 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 noticed later that this references Jacob’s Ladder and a connection from Earth to heaven, however I believe I used to be considering 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? Will we transfer collectively, can we battle, can we dance?
I additionally wished to reference the wind scene from the movie, The Color of Pomegranates, and to incorporate as many artist girls from the Girls in Revolt exhibition as I might. I wished them to be troublesome, or simply to shout “Inflicting bother!” I ended up inviting all of the artist musician girls I knew who might make the shoot, and it was a implausible assembly of nice girls, lots of whom had by no means met one another earlier than.
Watch under.
TRACKLIST:
01 “I Thought I’d Reside Perpetually”
02 “Happiness”
03 “Inflicting Hassle Once more”
04 “Cello Track”
05 “Preserve To The Left”
06 “Doom Monger”
07 “Don’t Combat Your Mates”
08 “Nothing Will Ever Change That”
09 “Hey Hey”
10 “Practice Platform”
11 “Sleep” (Digital-Solely Bonus Observe)
Hassle is out 7/11 on Third Man. Pre-order it right here.
