I Play My Bass Loud
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
I Play My Bass Loud coheres through the sheer magnetism of Birch's personality and playing, and her unrelenting commitment to examining the forces — systemic, accidental, deliberate and sometimes self-defeating — that have acted upon women since the dawn of time.
9mo
80
There’s something about this mix of scrawling guitars, frank lyricism and brazen dub that is a joyfully empowering inversion of the girl group sound.
8mo
80
It's a loud, celebratory album that perfectly boils down Birch's 40-plus-year journey as a tireless, boundless, and most of all fearless, creator.
7mo
80
On this evidence, enough to suggest that Birch, now into her late sixties, might just be entering her next great creative phase.
7mo
80
She’s an art-school adventurer who has painted, filmed and performed by her own rules for over four decades.
7mo
80
For Raincoats fans this is the most similar to their underrated third album Moving, for its fluent, danceable, off-kilter rhythms. For everyone else it's a marvel waiting to be discovered.
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7mo
75
The debut solo album from the Raincoats bassist is adventurous and collaborative and vibrant and furious.
6mo
70
I Play My Bass Loud is a lot of fun to listen to. It’s heartfelt, naïve, and made with genuine love for the material, and while it may not be earth-shakingly great, you can’t help but get caught up in it.
6mo
60
With weaving basslines, heavily processed vocals and dramatic, flavourful synths, the album takes us through a vivid political journey.
7mo
gina birch is a punk veteran as a member of the raincoats, so it comes as a surprise to learn that this is her debut solo album even over 40 years after the raincoat's debut. now, if youre coming into this album with "lola"in mind, you might be severely disappointed with what you might get--it's immensely stylistically varied in a somewhat grating way, and her vocals are super rough, and how she slathers her voice in autotune every now and then becomes very odd. but there's a specific ... read more
Gina Birch - I Play My Bass Loud
Genre: Post Punk
Country: UK
Final Verdict: 62% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 88th / 185
Highlight: I Will Never Wear Stillettos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4fh4df2VBg
Made me think of:
Metric
The Slits
Fiona Apple
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Track List
| 1 | I Play My Bass Loud 4:27 | 82 |
| 2 | And Then It Happened 2:41 | 77 |
| 3 | Wish I Was You 3:23 | 74 |
| 4 | Now We're All Upset (aka Big Mouth) 3:12 | 86 |
| 5 | Pussy Riot 4:29 | 65 |
| 6 | I Am Rage 4:09 | 72 |
| 7 | I Will Never Wear Stillettos 4:28 | 86 |
| 8 | Dance Like a Demon 4:16 | 85 |
| 9 | Digging Down 5:07 | 87 |
| 10 | Feminist Song 4:35 | 74 |
| 11 | Let's Go Crazy 4:06 | 85 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
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Added on: November 8, 2022