Former Sonic Youth singer-bassist Kim Gordon will release her sophomore solo album this spring — and if the first single is anything to go by, it’s gonna be a monster.
The Collective, due March 8, is the followup to Gordon’s 2019 solo debut No Home Record. At the same time as she announced the album on her Bandcamp page, she released the first single and video for Bye Bye — a creepy, nocturnal noise-rock nugget that features a whomping beat, two-finger horror-movie piano, scraping guitars and Gordon’s unmistakable deadpan vocals.
The video stars Coco Gordon Moore, her daughter with ex-husband and former bandmate Thurston Moore, and was directed by Clara Balzary, daughter of Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Gordon Moore portrays a young runaway roaming the streets of L.A., shoplifting from a convenience store staffed by a dude who looks suspiciously like her father. After making her way to a motel where she cuts her hair, she gets picked up in a pickup by Moore, only to flee again into the night.
Watch the video for Bye Bye above, listen to the track and read the press release on The Collective below, and follow Kim Gordon on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album, The Collective, due March 8 on Matador.
Recorded in her native Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 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. 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.
“On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now,” says Gordon. “This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don’t necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia. To soothe, to dream, escape with drugs, TV shows, shopping, the internet, everything is easy, smooth, convenient, branded. It made me want to disrupt, to follow something unknown, maybe even to fail.”
The Collective Track List
1 | Bye Bye
2 | The Candy House
3 | I Don’t Miss My Mind
4 | I’m A Man
5 | Trophies
6 | It’s Dark Inside
7 | Psychedelic Orgasm
8 | Tree House
9 | Shelf Warmer
10 | The Believers
11| Dream Dollar
