{"id":9278,"date":"2026-03-09T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kim-gordon-play-me-review\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:04:00","slug":"kim-gordon-play-me-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kim-gordon-play-me-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Gordon Is Captivating, Commanding On \u2018PLAY ME\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/01\/24-NOT-TODAY-credit-Moni-Haworth-1.jpeg\" width=\"2406\" height=\"1786\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Kim Gordon (photo: Moni Haworth).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A funny thing happened on the way to reviewing Kim Gordon\u2019s third solo record. Because of the somewhat treacherous DSP this reviewer endures, the protected stream was crippled by digital dropouts, glitchery, buffering, overmodulation, you name it. After rebooting, refreshing and revisiting the apparatus, listening to <em>PLAY ME<\/em> (Matador) felt like a bonus remix. This is not a pejorative statement.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no denying Gordon\u2019s bona fides (disheveled noise-rocker, riot-grrl signal amplifier, fashion designer, unvarnished solo artist, cultural commentator), but none of that really prepares you for <em>PLAY ME<\/em>\u2019s jarring, juddering <em>audio verite<\/em>. On the follow-up to the twice Grammy-nominated <em>The Collective<\/em>, Gordon has doubled-down on everything. The dozen tracks apply hip-hop\u2019s pickpocketed beats, punk\u2019s abuse of equipment and IDM\u2019s itchy, digital abrasion to her vocal performances, making for a tightly wound listening experience so epileptic that all the hyperpop kids should sell their laptops and matriculate to trade schools.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/kacey-musgraves-new-single-album\/\">Kacey Musgraves Teasing New LP With \u2018Dry Spell\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/michael-stipe-rooster-theme-song\/\">Michael Stipe Struts On \u2018Rooster\u2019 Theme Song<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/jonny-greenwood-shye-ben-tzur-rajasthan-express\/\">Jonny Greenwood Regroups With Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any given moment, Gordon\u2019s sing-speak Sprechgesang of catchphrases, commands, Post-It note poetry and cultural keywords (\u201cBye Bye 25!\u201d) comes off clipped, desperate, laconic, near-death, dominating, erotic, craven, jaded, resigned, empowered. <em>Captivating<\/em>. The most remotely linear moment here, \u201cNot Today,\u201d feels like a fractured love song with an implied fatalist ending. Gordon and producer Justin Raisen are the architects of a twitching underworld where the buildings are made of cascading scrolls of zeroes and ones, the dirt and grime glimmers with powdered glass and Alan Vega\u2019s profile is printed on all the city\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing his decidedly challenging work, avant-garde composer John Cage once wrote, \u201cYou needn\u2019t call it \u2018music\u2019 if the term offends you.\u201d You\u2019re probably too square to listen to <em>PLAY ME<\/em>. It\u2019s OK \u2014 Gordon understands. And still doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-1290x1290.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-655550\" style=\"width:551px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-1290x1290.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-498x498.jpg 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/03\/Kim-Gordon-Play-Me-Packshot-2-1668x1668.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Gordon (photo: Moni Haworth). A funny thing happened on the way to reviewing Kim Gordon\u2019s third solo record. Because of the somewhat treacherous DSP this reviewer endures, the protected&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5074,24,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-gordon","category-pushly","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}