“Play Me” - Kim Gordon
Released march 13, 2026 through Matador.File under: rock/experimental
Kim Gordon is one of the founding members of seminal alterative 80s rock outfit Sonic Youth, known as experimental music pioneers, and for addressing the insidious underground ideas that permeated American society, celebrity worship, the Satanic Panic, dysfunctional family dynamics, and the blurring line between dreams and reality. Kim’s third solo album PLAY ME, released at the age of 72, continues to address the issues that plague uas as societies, decentralised to include those that affect everyone; AI slop and the subsequent flagrant waste of resources, corporate overreach, governmental collapse at the hands of oligarchy, constant doublespeak and gaslighting by authorities, and the potential environmental devastation we all face, every day.
Kim once again teams up with pop producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Kim’s previous album The Collective) to create a punctuated trap/alternative 12 track album that is over in just 29 minutes. Kim’s lyrics are as poignant as ever, breathily delivering lyrics about the false and fleeting nature of internet fame, AI human replacement, corporate greed and the new-god oligarchy, the online porn industry, privilege and the media circus, the habits of online shopping and flagrant consumerism, and the constant barrage of omni-crises. She also revisits her 2023 song BYEBYE (The Collective), updated with new words and sound in the final track BYEBYE25.
From Kim’s Bandcamp page “The follow-up to 2024’s Justin Raisen-produced, two-time Grammy-nominated The Collective processes, in her 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.”
For people who like Sonic Youth, Mandy, Indiana, Model /Actriz, Sextile, Debby Friday and Kim’s other solo projects.
Listen to “PLAY ME” on:Apple Music }|{ Spotify }|{ Tidal