Girl Trouble Announces First Album in 23 Years, 'As Is'

The Northwest garage rock legends, Girl Trouble, are making a triumphant return to their original label home, K Records, after 23 years. Their new album, As Is, is slated for release on June 26, in collaboration with their own Wig Out! label. Fans can get a taste of the new record with a video of the band performing "Make It Mine."

Calvin Johnson, founder of K Records, shared his excitement: "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... Can you DIG IT?”

Formed in 1984 in Tacoma, Washington, Girl Trouble quickly established themselves with early singles like “Riverbed” and “Old Time Religion” on K Records. Their 1988 album, Hit It or Quit It, marked the first full-length release on the then-emerging Sub Pop label. As Is follows their 2003 release, The Illusion of Excitement.

Here's the tracklist for 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

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