Kim Gordon

Special Guest: Gudrun Gut

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Recorded in Gordon’s native Los Angeles, The Collective follows her 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. Released by Matador, 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.

Breaking barriers in male dominated cultural worlds, with her very embodiment of coolness, and with her fearless and rigorous experimentalism, Gordon, for decades, has been and continues to be an inspiration. »What Gordon has proved in this past decade is that her art, her life, her cool...has never been contingent upon anyone else. With time, and through continued art-making, she has righted her own ship and pointed it once again in the direction of thrillingly uncharted waters.« – New York Times

The first track »Bye Bye« opens with a semi-cryptic list including milk thistle, dog sitter, hoodie, toothpaste, foundation… Gordon is leaving, but where to? Murky and brooding, sitting on a trap beat with Gordon vocalising in spoken word style over fuzzy guitar riffs, the track sets the tone for a gloriously stylish and boundary-pushing album, an expert blend of old and new.

Opening for Gordon will be longtime colleague and friend Gudrun Gut, the German subcultural icon who rose to prominence in 1980s Berlin as part of the bands Mania D, Matador, Malaria!, and Einstürzende Neubauten. Through her label Monika Enterprise, the long-running Oceanclub radio show and club night with Thomas Fehlmann, and ongoing collaborations Gut »has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years« (The Wire), and tirelessly supported female voices in the industry. In 2019 she released Moment, an album that spans her trajectory all the way from post-punk and no wave through techno and into indietronics. Gut’s background as a key figure in Berlin’s »geniale Dilletanten« still casts an aura of mechanised rhythms and a frozen emotional palette, but decades of improvisation and collaboration have deepened her sense of composition and melody beyond easy genre categorisation.

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