Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon releases the new video for ‘Hungry Baby’, directed by Clara Balzary and starring Coco Gordon-Moore. Watch HERE. ‘Hungry Baby’ is taken from Gordon’s solo debut album, No Home Record, which was released last autumn on Matador Records to critical acclaim.
“I came up with the idea for the video after listening to ‘Hungry Baby’ on a 2020 angst fueled walk around my suburban neighborhood”, says Balzary. “Coco is an amazing performer, and loved her as this character with such a raging internal world set against that quiet + empty backdrop of the parking lot. I’m so grateful to Kim for being so supportive and open to the idea. She is such a role model as someone for whom an art practice always comes before worries about ego or branding. The talented Sadie Wilking worked with Coco on choreography, and we couldn’t have done any of it without the legendary cinematographer and friend, Christopher Blauvelt, who is always so generous with his craft.”
Gordon performed songs from No Home Record, including ‘Hungry Baby’, on a recently aired episode of Echoes with Jehnny Beth. Watch HERE
No Home Record was produced largely by Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Ariel Pink, Sky Ferreira) at Sphere Ranch in Los Angeles, along with contributions from Shawn Everett (Jim James, The Voidz, The War on Drugs) and composer/filmmaker Jake Meginsky (L’appel Du Vide). Gordon’s solo debut album’s title is a nod to the French-Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s film No Home Movie.
“Why a solo record? And why now?,” Gordon mused of the upcoming solo debut. “I don’t know, but it wouldn’t have happened without the persistence of Justin Raisen. Living in LA the last few years it feels like home, but the transience of the place makes it feel sometimes like no home.”
Since co-founding the seminal Sonic Youth in the early 80’s, Kim Gordon has remained at the nexus of music, fashion, art and (more recently) books and film. In the past few years alone, Gordon has debuted in the #1 spot on the NY Times Bestseller List with her 2015 memoir Girl In A Band, acted alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill under the direction of Gus Van Sant (in 2018’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”), released music and performed as one half of Body/Head alongside Bill Nace, and opened multiple solo-exhibitions at internationally renowned museums.
Read the full album bio by artist Elaine Kahn HERE.
In October, Gordon released No Icon, an evocative, visual self-portrait via Rizzoli. Part scrapbook, part visual diary, No Icon is a collection of personal photographs, magazine and news- paper clippings, zines, fashion editorials, and ad campaigns, spliced with lyrics, writing, artwork, and personal ephemera. Spanning from Gordon’s childhood on Californian surf beaches in the ’60s and ’70s to New York’s downtown art and music scene in the ’80s and ’90s where Sonic Youth was born, this quirky volume gives readers a rare glimpse into the personal archive of a true cultural trailblazer.
No Icon is available HERE.
