The Raincoats’ Gina Birch has released a new single, ‘Doom Monger’, the latest offering from her upcoming solo LP Trouble. Following previous cut ‘Causing Trouble Again’, the track arrives alongside a music video directed by Birch and Dean Chalkley. Check it out below. “This is about the world going to hell in a handcart, feeling […]
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The Raincoats’ Gina Birch has released a new single, ‘Doom Monger’, the latest offering from her upcoming solo LP Trouble. Following previous cut ‘Causing Trouble Again’, the track arrives alongside a music video directed by Birch and Dean Chalkley. Check it out below.
“This is about the world going to hell in a handcart, feeling overwhelmed, but yearning for peace and happiness,” Birch said in a statement, adding of the video:
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.
Trouble will arrive via Third Man Records on July 11.
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