Continuing her remarkable run of envelope pushing releases this year including her critically acclaimed album The Collective and most recently, ‘ECRP,’ Kim Gordon has continued her ongoing collaboration with Justin Raisen (The Collective, No Home Record) and teamed up with DC experimental hip hop group model home for ‘razzamatazz,’ an electro-freak track of throbbing sub-basses and rotary sonics hovering below Gordon’s iconic whisper. The track is accompanied by a visualizer made by model home.
model home is an experimental duo made up of Washington, DC-based artists Nappy Nappa and p cain. The duo are known for their freewheeling and improvisational approach to their music. To date, they’ve released a compilation album, one full-length EP, numerous mixtapes and 19 Bandcamp-only tracks. They’ve played institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fridman Gallery in New York City and Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht.
Earlier this year, Gordon released her second solo album, The Collective, to critical acclaim, with Vulture and Pitchfork calling it one of the best albums of the year. Gordon also made her explosive solo late night television debut, performing ‘BYE BYE’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch the performance below.
Recorded in Gordon’s native Los Angeles, The Collective follows her 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. The album advances their joint world building, with Raisin’s damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, which conjure communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload.
Watch the video for ‘I’m A Man’
Watch the video for ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’
Watch the video for ‘ECRP’
ACCLAIM FOR THE COLLECTIVE:
“The new album’s daring beats and improvised guitar are marks of a lifelong radical still at the peak of her powers.” – THE NEW YORKER
“Hardly a melodist, Gordon instead approaches the mic as a poet of modern life, offering abstract, spoken vocals that speak to both the banality and volatility of our world.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Vicious and brilliant..a maelstrom of mundane thoughts and funny asides and flashes of pure rage whipped into a heavy, unnerving fog.. Few are better equipped than Gordon—who, at 70, is still cooler, smarter, and more fearless than most—to guide us through” – PITCHFORK
“By turns surprising and disconcerting, listening to Gordon’s radically inventive songs on this album play as an apt distillation of what it’s like to live right now” – NPR
“This album is an act of legacy mutation. The idea is to obliterate the brand. Unless, for a hero of the counterculture like Gordon, obliterating the brand is, in fact, the brand.” – THE WASHINGTON POST
“Kim Gordon’s always been hardcore, and if anyone needed proof, then The Collective, certainly delivered. Her talk-sing signature found a fuzzed-out wall of bass to smash up against again and again while talking about packing lists, random trinkets that decorate your shelf, or what it’s like to be a man in 2024. Seeing her perform this record live was nothing short of a revelation and punk as fuck.” – VOGUE
“Gordon will turn 71 next month, and she’s made one of the most daring albums of her career. If you want to get it though, you have to turn it up and submit.” – ROLLING STONE
“Decades later, and forever, Gordon’s art is not for the faint of heart.” – ASSOCIATED PRESS
“She’s simultaneously remote and larger-than-life, a paragon of cool.” – V MAGAZINE
“A marvellously weird left-turn” – PAPER MAGAZINE
“An immersive, entrancing listen — music fit for both exhilaration and examination.”– STEREOGUM
“As rappers search to redefine rock stardom, Gordon is offering a path forward simply by reasserting her pedigree.” – FADER
“A potent distillation of the multifaceted nature of Gordon as a songwriter, auteur, and iconoclast.” – UPROXX
“The former Sonic Youth bassist’s concepts are intrinsic and rapturous on her second solo album, rendered in blankets of feedback and nonsense phrases that are expressionistic and accessible all the same.” – PASTE MAGAZINE
“Gordon has managed to create an album that pushes her legacy as an experimental force even further, another piece in a discography that refuses to be categorized. Rather than drift off quietly into the sunset, she might just be making the most interesting music of her career.” – EXCLAIM!
“‘The Collective’ rivals that of Sonic Youth’s strongest albums” – GLIDE MAGAZINE
““The Collective” is a further journey into the claustrophobic grooves, car-chime synths and playground cadences of SoundCloud rap, with lead singles “I’m a Man” and “Bye Bye” eviscerating toxic masculinity and mining menace from a to-do list, respectively.” – WASHINGTON POST
“Riotous” – TOWN & COUNTRY
“The indie-music icon is still making art after four decades, and she’s only gotten cooler with time” – LA MAGAZINE
The Collective track list:
- BYE BYE
- The Candy House
- I Don’t Miss My Mind
- I’m a Man
- Trophies
- It’s Dark Inside
- Psychedelic Orgasm
- Tree House
- Shelf Warmer
- The Believers
- Dream Dollar
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