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Gina Birch Announces Second Solo Album 'Trouble' With New Single Causing Trouble Again
Thursday, 08 May 2025 Written by Jon Stickler

Photo: Dean Chalkley

Gina Birch has announced her second solo album.

Birch, best known as a founding member of the influential post-punk band The Raincoats, will release 'Trouble' through Third Man Records on July 11, following up her 2023 debut, 'I Play My Bass Loud'.

As a preview, Birch has shared a new six-minute single, Causing Trouble Again, which serves up her signature bass-driven sound, complete with drum machine beats and pulsating rhythms. The track arrives with a video co-directed by Birch and photographer/filmmaker Dean Chalkley. She 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."

Birch will celebrate 'Trouble' with an appearance at Rough Trade East in London on July 16, before dates supporting Miki Berenyi Trio on tour in North America in the fall. Head here for details.

'Trouble' tracklist:

1. I Thought I'd Live Forever
2. Happiness
3. Causing Trouble Again
4. Cello Song
5. Keep To The Left
6. Doom Monger
7. Don’t Fight Your Friends
8. Nothing Will Ever Change That
9. Hey Hey
10. Train Platform
11. Sleep (Digital-Only Bonus Track)

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