“The former Sonic Youth bassist’s concepts are intrinsic and rapturous on her second solo album, rendered in blankets of feedback and nonsense phrases that are expressionistic and accessible all the same.”
“Pairing blown-out trap beats and industrial noise with deadpan stream-of-consciousness lyrics, Gordon’s second solo album revels in the broken and the mundane.”
“Kim Gordon is rock royalty. She’s done it all, from ushering no wave’s charge into the mainstream to reinventing the sound of modern alternative rock countless times through Sonic Youth’s sprawling discography. Add in her work with Riot Grrrl troublemakers Free Kitten, her production roles on albums like Hole’s Pretty on the Inside and her ungovernable noise duo Body/Head, and she deserves to be s”
““Thank you Kim Gordon,” one caption put it, “putting out bangers in ur 70s, now I’m not scared to grow old.” The former Sonic Youth singer and bassist has become an unlikely TikTok smash thanks to her dissonant recent single ‘BYE BYE’, a punishing blast of blown-out bass and ice-cold trap beats. Battered by the noise, Gordon sounds unmoved as she coolly recounts the shit that needs to get done: “B”
“Kim Gordon returns with The Collective's thrilling ride”
“so close to the edge it sometimes falls off”
