Girl Trouble are returning to their original label home, K Records, for their first album in 23 years. The veteran garage rockers will share As Is on June 26 as a joint release from K and their own label, Wig Out! Below, watch a video of Girl Trouble performing a new song from the record, “Make It Mine.”
In a note to Pitchfork, K Records founder Calvin Johnson wrote, “Girl Trouble are the Northwest’s garage rock demigods, revered by all from Neko Case and Mudhoney to Soundgarden and Beat Happening. On As Is, their first album in over a decade, vibrato guitar collides rollin’ and tumblin’ into bedrock beats and black crow vocal calls; it’s rock’n’roll done in a backwoods style. Born in Tacoma, Washington, blasted all over the world via record labels like Sub Pop, K, Empty and Popllama, it’s 13 songs that hucklebuck the dancefloor in overdrive. Can you DIG IT?”
Founded in 1984 in Tacoma, Washington, Girl Trouble put out their debut singles, “Riverbed” and “Old Time Religion,” on K Records. Their 1988 album Hit It or Quit It was the inaugural full-length release on a then-fledgling Sub Pop. As Is will follow 2003’s The Illusion of Excitement.
Revisit The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest.
As Is:
01 Make It Mine
02 Back on Track
03 Can You Dig It
04 Freedom Rock
05 Time Comes to Your Rescue
06 You Don’t Mean It
07 Everybody’s Free
08 Don’t Forget It
09 Argue
10 Only Kind You Keep
11 Naming Names
12 Until We Meet Again
13 The Ballad of Blowfly
