Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH
Kim Gordon is on a genuinely remarkable run of solo records, all made with Los Angeles producer Justin Raisen, and the third one arrives fast: PLAY ME drops March 13 via Matador. “DIRTY TECH” is the second single, and it’s a different beast from lead track “NOT TODAY”, which leaned into stretched vocals and guitar. Here, Gordon goes back to the trap-adjacent territory that defined her 2024 album The Collective.
Over that beat, she chants about AI and the tech class displacing workers, deploying her signature spoken-word delivery with layers of sarcasm intact: “I like it when you talk dirty tech to me.” It’s the same dry, dissonant voice she used on Sonic Youth tracks, but the context has shifted. Gordon on the theme: “I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out — not the tech billionaires. It’s so abstract that people can’t comprehend”. Obvious point, maybe, but she sells it.
About the record’s direction, Gordon has said: “We wanted the songs to be short. 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”.
Tracklist:
- PLAY ME
- GIRL WITH A LOOK
- BLACK OUT
- DIRTY TECH
- NOT TODAY
- BUSY BEE
- SQUARE JAW
- SUBCON
- POST EMPIRE
- NAIL BITER
- BYEBYE25!
Tour Dates Europe:
- 11 April — The Hague, Netherlands — Rewire Festival
- 12 April — Nantes, France — Variations Festival
- 14 April — London, UK — O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
- 15 April — Brussels, Belgium — Ancienne Belgique
- 17 April — Paris, France — Le Trianon
- 19 April — Berlin, Germany — Huxley’s Neue Welt
- 20 April — Wrocław, Poland — A2
- 21 April — Warsaw, Poland — Progresja
