Following the news of her third solo album, PLAY ME, coming March 13 on Matador, Kim Gordon has announced UK and European headline and festival dates this Spring. A full list of dates is below. Tickets are now on sale HERE.
KIM GORDON TOUR DATES
Saturday April 11 - Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Sunday April 12 - Variations Festival, Nantes, France
Tuesday April 14 - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK
Wednesday April 15 - Ancient Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
Friday April 17 - Le Trianon, Paris, France
Sunday April 19 - Huxley’s Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany
Monday April 20 - A2, Wroclaw, Poland
Tuesday April 21 - Progesja, Warsaw, Poland
Gordon announced PLAY ME with ethereal first single ‘NOT TODAY’. The song was playlisted on BBC 6 Music and Radio X and played on BBC Radio 1. In the video, directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy with director of photography Christopher Blauvelt, Gordon wears a hand-dyed silk tulle dress from an early Rodarte collection, custom-made for her by the Mulleavys. Watch the video HERE.
Praise for ‘NOT TODAY’ (new single out today):
"The music is a swirl of shoegazey synth and a propulsive drumbeat for Gordon to float on" - Rolling Stone
"bleary, beautiful (...) Gordon's voice takes on a quality that's a lot more more melodic and vulnerable than we've heard from her in recent years" - Stereogum
"Oddly disarming" - The Guardian
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar on the making of the video, Laura Mulleavy noted, “We knew she wanted to wear the dress, and we started to build the video around the song itself. The reference is Kim’s sound. If you’re a fan of just her album, or if you’re a fan going back 30 years, you know what her sound feels and looks like, and that was the guiding force; having things that are dreamlike, whispered effects… all those things go with how her vocals sound, with the way her music has that electric quality that feels like white noise, even. That was what we tapped into.”
PLAY ME is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says of her continued collaboration with LA producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor). “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident. I always kind of work off of rhythms, and I knew I wanted it to be even more beat-oriented than the last one. Justin really gets my voice and my lyrics and he understands how I work—that came forth even more on this record.”
In 2019, Gordon’s debut solo LP No Home Record proved she was attuned as ever to vanguard sounds, mixing avant-rap and footwork into her sonic conceptual art. The Collective, in 2024, was brick-heavy and even more daring, led by the tectonic industrial clatter of her packing-list-cum-rage-rap banger ‘BYE BYE’ and earning two Grammy nominations.
The fast-following PLAY ME processes, in Gordon’s inimitable way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fueled chill-vibes flattening of culture - where dark humor voices the absurdity of modern life. But despite its frequent outward gaze, PLAY ME is an interior record, one in which a heightened emotionality pulses through physical jams, rejecting definitive statements in favor of an inquisitiveness that keeps Gordon searching, ever in process.
Read the full album bio by Jenn Pelly HERE.
PLAY ME Tracklist:
1. PLAY ME
2. GIRL WITH A LOOK
3. NO HANDS
4. BLACK OUT
5. DIRTY TECH
6. NOT TODAY
7. BUSY BEE
8. SQUARE JAW
9. SUBCON
10. POST EMPIRE
11. NAIL BITER
12. BYEBYE25!
