Girl Trouble Break the Silence With “Make It Mine”

Girl Trouble don’t need to reinvent themselves on “Make It Mine.” They just need to hit the riff hard enough, and they do. The Tacoma garage rock veterans return with a single that feels loose, swaggering, and completely alive, a reminder of how effective a band can sound when it trusts its own instincts. “Make It Mine” arrives ahead of the upcoming album As Is, due June 26 via K Records and Wig Out!, and it immediately sets the tone with a stomp that feels raw, direct, and built for movement.

The track runs on grease, attitude, and repetition in the best possible way. The guitars grind and wobble with that unmistakable garage-punk looseness, while the rhythm section keeps everything driving forward without overcomplicating the structure. There’s a physicality to the song. You can almost hear the room around the band. That matters, because “Make It Mine” works less as a polished statement and more as a live wire, something meant to hit fast and stick. The official Bandcamp page also makes clear that this is the one track currently available from the record, which makes it the right entry point into this new chapter.

Lyrically, “Make It Mine” leans into obsession, possession, and a kind of cartoonish spell-casting energy. Lines about voodoo dolls, curtain calls, magic spells, and speaking in tongues give the song a slightly unhinged theatrical edge, which fits the band’s ragged delivery perfectly. It never feels precious. It feels feral, amused, and a little dangerous.

What makes the single land is its refusal to over-explain itself. Girl Trouble sound like a band who know exactly what kind of rock’n’roll they want to make, and “Make It Mine” thrives on that confidence. It’s dirty, catchy, and stubborn in a way that feels earned. After such a long gap between albums, the smartest move would have been a song with bite and identity. That’s exactly what this is.