Kim Gordon - Play Me (coloured)

Kim Gordon continues to sharpen and shift her vision of art and noise on PLAY ME, her third solo album for Matador.

Distilled and direct, the record embraces shorter forms, heightened rhythms and a more beat-driven approach, expanding her sonic palette with melodic pulse and motorik momentum. The lead track, ‘NOT TODAY’, captures a new tension in Gordon’s voice, drawing out a register she has not explored in years. This sense of rediscovery runs throughout the album and is shaped by her ongoing collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, whose intuitive understanding of Gordon’s rhythms, vocals and lyrics gives the record its focus and forward momentum. While her earlier solo work absorbed elements of avant-rap, footwork and industrial weight, PLAY ME feels faster and more concentrated, addressing contemporary power structures, cultural flattening and digital unease with biting humour and clarity of intent. Despite its outward-looking perspective, the album is also deeply interior, emotionally charged, physical and resistant to fixed conclusions, with Gordon remaining inquisitive and in motion, allowing energy, voice and rhythm to do the thinking.