Gina Birch of the Raincoats has announced her second solo studio album. The new album, Trouble, is out July 11 via Third Man Records. Leading the follow-up to 2023’s I Play My Bass Loud is “Causing Trouble Again.” Below, watch the new song’s music video.
Birch directed her new music video with Dean Chalkley. She stars in the video 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, visual artist Georgina Starr, author Jill Westwood, artist and activist Bobby Baker, costume designer Annie Symons, British photographer Shirley O’Loughlin, and others.
In a statement about her new video, Birch said:
For the “Causing Trouble Again” 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.… I 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.
Read about the Raincoats’ Odyshape in “The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s.”
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Trouble:
01 I Thought I’d Live Forever
02 Happiness
03 Causing Trouble Again
04 Cello Song
05 Keep to the Left
06 Doom Monger
07 Don’t Fight Your Friends
08 Nothing Will Ever Change That
09 Hey Hey
10 Sleep
11 Train Platform
