
How short songs give Kim Gordon’s ‘PLAY ME’ its bite
Kim Gordon and Justin Raisen’s compact 12-track album uses speed, fragments and abrupt turns to make its ideas about tech culture deliberately unsettled.
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Kim Althea Gordon, born on April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. She was raised in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, she moved to New York City to pursue an art career. In 1981, she formed the band Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore. Gordon and Moore married in 1984. Sonic Youth released six albums on independent labels before signing with DGC Records, beginning with 'Goo' in 1990, and released a total of nine studio albums on that label. She was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993. Sonic Youth's final studio album, 'The Eternal,' was released in 2009 on Matador Records, and the band disbanded in 2011 following Gordon and Moore's separation. After Sonic Youth, Gordon formed the experimental duo Body/Head with Bill Nace, releasing their debut album, 'Coming Apart,' in 2013.
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Kim Gordon and Justin Raisen’s compact 12-track album uses speed, fragments and abrupt turns to make its ideas about tech culture deliberately unsettled.

Kim Gordon’s 72-minute Le Trianon performance brings PLAY ME together with material from The Collective and No Home Record, offering a practical way into her solo catalogue.

Kim Gordon and Tomorrows Tulips’ Alex Knost made one five-track album as Glitterbust in 2016. Start with the nine-minute ‘The Highline’, then take in Thomas Campbell’s Orange County video and the full self-titled record.

Kim Gordon, Future Islands, Melvins and The Lemon Twigs are among the acts set for Hipnosis Festival this November.

The set documents her Le Trianon performance of new album 'PLAY ME'.

Kim Gordon - Sonic Youth co-founder, visual artist and lifelong disruptor - is back with her third solo album 'Play Me'. It's a fierce, funny record that dares AI (and everyone else) to keep up.

Tickets for her new North American dates go on sale this Friday.

The album 'Play Me' will be released on 13th March via Matador Records.

The album 'PLAY ME' will be released on 13th March via Matador.

The album will be released through Matador Records.

Kim Gordon reworks 'BYE BYE' to include Trump-banned words, with proceeds supporting reproductive rights through NOISE FOR NOW.

Kim will play London, Birmingham and Glastonbury this month.

Check out early single 'Bye Bye'.
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