Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise continues to sharpen and shift on PLAY ME, her third solo album for Matador. Distilled and direct, the record leans into shorter forms, heightened rhythms and a more beat-oriented drive, expanding her palette with melodic pulse and motorik momentum.
The lead track ‘NOT TODAY’ captures a new tension in Gordon’s voice, drawing out a register she hadn’t used in years. That sense of rediscovery runs throughout the album, shaped by her ongoing collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, whose intuitive grasp of Gordon’s rhythms, vocals and lyrics helps give the record its focus and forward motion.
Where earlier solo work absorbed avant-rap, footwork and industrial weight, PLAY ME feels faster and more concentrated, processing contemporary power structures, cultural flattening and digital unease with biting humour and clarity of intent. Despite its outward gaze, this is an interior record too: emotionally charged, physical, and resistant to fixed conclusions. Instead, Gordon stays inquisitive and in motion, letting energy, voice and rhythm do the thinking.
The lead track ‘NOT TODAY’ captures a new tension in Gordon’s voice, drawing out a register she hadn’t used in years. That sense of rediscovery runs throughout the album, shaped by her ongoing collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, whose intuitive grasp of Gordon’s rhythms, vocals and lyrics helps give the record its focus and forward motion.
Where earlier solo work absorbed avant-rap, footwork and industrial weight, PLAY ME feels faster and more concentrated, processing contemporary power structures, cultural flattening and digital unease with biting humour and clarity of intent. Despite its outward gaze, this is an interior record too: emotionally charged, physical, and resistant to fixed conclusions. Instead, Gordon stays inquisitive and in motion, letting energy, voice and rhythm do the thinking.
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