With their jittery harmonies and bounding rhythmic clangor, their insistence on doing it themselves, and their brash disregard of expectations, The Raincoats didn’t just talk about feminism: they enacted it. Nearly 20 years on after The Raincoats last album, founding member Gina Birch has made a solo album, I Play My Bass Loud, her first in a multi-decade career (unless you count a 1994 album by The Hangovers). We talk about her new record, her early days in squats, her love of reggae and the legacy of The Raincoats.
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The Raincoats / 40th Anniversary :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In May, post-punk legends The Raincoats announced a handful of shows across the UK and a performance at Le Guess Who? to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their seminal self-titled debut album. […]
The Raincoats (1979) :: Revisiting
Considering the amount of artists their brief career inspired, and influenced, The Raincoats (1979) debut is an album that criminally goes in and out of print far too often. Rough Trade’s 2003 reissue, for […]