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    GINA BIRCH

    Feb 09, 2023 3 minutes

    I Play My Bass Loud

    THIRD MAN

    8/10

    IN September 2021, Third Man toasted the opening of their new London store by releasing Gina Birch’s “Feminist Song” as a 7-inch single. The track marked the belated arrival of Birch as a solo recording artist, 40-plus years since she first started making music. It also set into motion a debut album, I Play My Bass Loud, that’s so thoroughly compelling it makes you wish she’d got around to it a little sooner.

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