Four decades after helping define post-punk's feminist vanguard with The Raincoats, Gina Birch delivers her debut solo album with the directness its title promises. Released on Jack White's Third Man Records, the album centers on Birch's characteristically unorthodox bass work, where rhythm and texture trump virtuosity.

Her instrument remains loud not just in volume but in its refusal to fade into conventional rock arrangements. It's a statement of persistence from someone who never needed mainstream validation, arriving precisely when a new generation has begun understanding what she was doing all along.