Gina Birch Craves Peace in the Chaos on New Single; Second Solo album Out July 11 via Third Man

GINA BIRCH CRAVES PEACE IN THE CHAOS ON  NEW SINGLE “DOOM MONGER” —  STREAM/ WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO    LEGENDARY POST-PUNK ICON’S EAGERLY AWAITED SECOND SOLO ALBUM, TROUBLE, OUT JULY 11 ON THIRD MAN RECORDS — PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE PRE-ORDER THE SPECIAL ROUGH TRADE VINYL VARIANT HERE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR SUPPORTING MIKI BERENYI TRIO BEGINS OCTOBER 10 IN WASHINGTON, DC

Photo Credit: Dean Chalkley Legendary artist, Raincoats co-founder, songwriter, filmmaker, and feminist icon Gina Birch today shares new single “Doom Monger” taken from her eagerly awaited second solo album, Trouble, arriving via Third Man Records on Friday, July 11. Pre-orders are available now. An official music video – directed by Birch and famed photographer/filmmaker Dean Chalkley – is streaming now on YouTube. LISTEN TO “DOOM MONGER” WATCH “DOOM MONGER” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO Birch succinctly explains the feelings behind the song, “This is about the world going to hell in a handcart, feeling overwhelmed, but yearning for peace and happiness.”  Diving into the processes involved in the making of the video, she shares, “At art school I had made a 16mm film made up of nine Super 8 screens of a friend, standing in Alexandra Park, turning round. I divided the body into head, torso and feet. Each frame was filmed independently and I then refilmed the Super 8, on a grid, and filmed on 16mm rewinding the canister each time. This process has inspired me to make several videos, and now one for myself, using 9 frames. I wanted to make a colourful fun video for ‘Doom Monger’, that had an element of humour to it. With 9 screens to watch simultaneously, it’s possible to miss things, so the video may have to be viewed several times. Among other things, I seemingly punch myself, and I outstretch my arms and have to duck down out of their reach. I hammer frames out of the way, and I turn negative on many occasions, and I layer the individual frames so that there is a complex layer of images at other times.” “Doom Monger” follows previous single, “Causing Trouble Again” which was inspired by 2024’s Women in Revolt, an exhibition of feminist art and activism at Tate Britain which included one of Birch’s most recognized art pieces, 1977’s 3 Minute Scream, a landmark short film in which she stares down the camera and, as the title suggests, screams for the duration of a Super 8 cartridge. Birch created the epic six-minute track by inviting several female artists, including experimental music pioneer Cosey Fanni Tutti and writer/painter Caroline Coon, to record themselves saying the names of women who have inspired them – women who have indeed “caused trouble.”  The video for the song – directed by Birch and famed photographer/filmmaker Dean Chalkley features an all-star collective of fellow female artists including Birch’s longtime friend and co-founder of The Raincoats, Ana da Silva, Neo Naturists co-founder Christine Binnie, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby, X-Ray Spex and Essential Logic co-founder Lora Logic, painter Daisy Parris, artist Georgina Starr, writer Jill Westwood, multi-disciplinary artist and activist Bobby Baker, award-winning costume designer Annie Symons, veteran photographer and Raincoats collaborator Shirley O’Loughlin, amongst many others.

Propelled by Birch’s springy bass and a breakneck drum machine beat, “Causing Trouble Again” crescendos until hundreds of names are being read aloud: Nina Simone to Dolly Parton, Grace Jones to Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth I to Stormy Daniels. The result is extraordinary – a jubilant exploration of what it means to go against society’s grain, overlaid with fuzzy guitar solos and rebellious flair. WATCH ‘CAUSING TROUBLE AGAIN’ OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO   PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE TROUBLE Birch will celebrate the arrival of Trouble with a series of live dates with her band-mates ‘The Unreasonables’, Marie Merlet and Jenny Green (who are also featured on the album and have co-written several songs). Including a Rough Trade East Instore on July 16th (tickets here) and appearing as special guests on Miki Berenyi Trio’s upcoming North American tour. The 15-city run gets underway October 10 at Washington DC’s Pearl Street Warehouse and then travels through a tour finale at West Hollywood, CA’s famed Roxy Theatre. Highlights include stops at such historic venues as Brooklyn, NY’s Music Hall of Williamsburg (October 11), Toronto, ON’s The Great Hall (October 15), Chicago, IL’s Lincoln Hall (October 17), Seattle, WA’s Neptune Theatre (October 23), and San Francisco, CA’s Great American Music Hall (October 27). For complete details and ticket information, please see https://ginabirchmusic.com/#live.   GINA BIRCH – TOUR DATES 2025 JULY 16 - London, UK - Rough Trade East In-Store NORTH AMERICAN TOUR (All Dates w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) OCTOBER 10 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street Warehouse 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg 12 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair 13 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB 15 – Toronto, ON – The Great Hall 16 – Ferndale, MI – The Magic Bag 17 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall 18 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club 20 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 23 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre 24 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre 25 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios 27 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall 28 – West Hollywood, CA – The Roxy Theatre