Laptop, hand cream, body lotion, Bella Freud, YSL, Eckhaus Latta, eyelash curler, vibrator, teaser.” It’s a couple of years since Kim Gordon taught the world to pack suitcases on unlikely viral hit BYE BYE, with her electro-punk dissociative track introducing a whole new generation to this alternative music icon.
Over the past few years Gordon — unbelievably, now in her seventies — has been releasing solo work as vital and uncompromising as anything she did as a member of the seminal Sonic Youth (who split up in 2011 after the divorce of Gordon and fellow member Thurston Moore), with new album PLAY ME perfecting her avant-garde hip-hop-punk. Produced by Justin Raisen (who did early work with Charli xcx), Gordon is typically no-fuss about its lo-fi conception:
