Kim Gordon – Play Me

Kim Gordon has been rethinking art and noise again and again for decades - and has never lost her edge. Forty years after her beginnings, her vision still seems provocative. She continues this adventure with her third solo album "Play Me", which will be released by Matador Records.

The announcement comes with the release of the first single "Not Today", accompanied by a short film by fashion designers and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte). In it, Gordon wears a hand-dyed silk tulle dress made especially for her. The song reveals a new, almost poetic tension in her voice: "A different voice emerged," says Gordon.

"Play Me" is a concentrated, direct album that expands her sound with more melodic beats and the motoric drive of Krautrock. It was once again created with producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor). The songs are short, concise and strongly rhythm-oriented - more focused and self-confident than before.

After "No Home Record" (2019) and "The Collective" (2024, two Grammy nominations), Gordon turns his attention to the present: tech power, AI-driven cultural flattening, the dismantling of democratic structures and the absurd everyday life of late capitalism. Despite these themes, "Play Me" is an inward-looking, almost physical and equally emotional album. With distorted voices and rugged beats, songs such as "Square Jaw", "Dirty Tech" and "Busy Bee" expose social realities. The title track exposes the logic of a thoroughly curated comfort culture.

"Play Me" is radically contemporary, resistant and uncompromisingly independent.