Kim Gordon Shares Not Today
It’s been really interesting listening to the evolution of Kim Gordon‘s music since her Sonic Youth days, but if this video and song are anything to go by, she seems to be having the time of her life lately. This song opens up with a propulsive groove, tightly wound so that it provides a snap, allowing Gordon to embrace the rhythm and let herself go in the video format. This tune could easily operate on that, letting her deliver heavily smoked vocals atop of that groove, but as Gordon is her own artist, the tune gets filled out with ambient noises, operating like sonic glitches in the pop structure, mixing the worlds in the best fashion possible. The freedom presented in the video really is a joy to watch, so hopefully we can all be as lucky; it’s a really impressive tune to kick off the album cycle; look for her new LP, Play Me, which drops March 13th via Matador Records.
After a brief break, then transitioning to Levitation,