Song(s) of the Day # 4,142 Gina Birch

                                    

                                              'In a school when I was two PiD that afternoon.'

If in doubt namedrop Gina Birch and Ana de Santos and bang on about Raincoats and how long you've been into them. Ask Horsegirl. Ask anyone who's working in any Rough Trade Shop ever. Listen to Gina Birch's new album Trouble.It's great. You'll be watching Sammu & Rosie Get Laid again. Make you feel like you're 17 again.

I Thought I'd Live Forever, the opening track sets the whole thing up perfectly. It's the world as observed from an angle of alterno cool. The late seventies and early Eughties alternative DiY perspective writ large.  

Then Causing Trouble is the whole refusenik manufesto in frdge magnet form. And that's no slur. It's like a cult rainbow.. 'I'm a girl and I shall not conform, in fact I'll smudge my eye shadow if I bloomin' well want to.' And then a checklist of the cool squad. Yoko One, Delia Derbyshire, Joan Fontaine. Kathleen Hanna, Nina Simone. .Are you writing all these down.

It's the world. If it decided to spin the other way from the way it's cureently spinning and threatened to click off its axis. Goodness knows it mightn't be the worst idea the way things are going. It all has a splendid dubby slightly haunted air. Fabulous frankly.