Play Me CD

Kim Gordons vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changeda paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. The adventure continues on the artists third solo album, PLAY ME, which will be released March 13 by Matador Records. The lead track NOT TODAY is available now, accompanied by a short film directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy with director of photography Christopher Blauvelt. The song brings out a poetic tension in Gordons voice. I started singing in a way I hadnt sung in a long time, she says. This other voice came out.PLAY ME is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordons sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. We wanted the songs to be short, Gordon says of her continued collaboration with LA producer Justin Raisen Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor. We wanted to do it really fast. Its more focused, and maybe more confident. I always kind of work off of rhythms, and I knew I wanted it to be even more beatoriented than the last one. Justin really gets my voice and my lyrics and he understands how I workthat came forth even more on this record.In 2019, Gordons debut solo LP No Home Record proved she was attuned as ever to vanguard sounds, mixing avantrap and footwork into her sonic conceptual art. The Collective, in 2024, was brickheavy and even more daring, led by the tectonic industrial clatter of her packinglistcumragerap banger BYE BYE and earning two Grammy nominations.The fastfollowing PLAY ME processes, in Gordons inimitable way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class the demolition of democracy, technocratic endtimes fascism, the A.I.fueled chillvibes flattening of culture where dark humor voices the absurdity of modern life. But despite its frequent outward gaze, PLAY ME is an interior record, one in which a heightened emotionality pulses through physical jams, rejecting definitive statements in favor of an inquisitiveness that keeps Gordon searching, ever in process.