At this stage, Kim Gordon (Free Kitten, Sonic Youth, Body/Head) seems to have surpassed her boss stage and has climbed further up the musical corporate ladder. You can probably find her in the shadows, manipulating everything around her the same way she manipulates everything within her music.

Kim Gordon has released “DIRTY TECH,” the second single from her upcoming third solo album, PLAY ME, which is due out on March 13th via Matador Records. The track explores the power struggle between humans and robots, a theme visually complemented by the Moni Haworth-directed video, which features Gordon in an abandoned corporate office.

Gordon spoke on the track, offering, “I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot?” Gordon says. “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.” In using her own abstract language to describe reality, she begins to clarify it.

The album’s lead track “NOT TODAY” was released last month and accompanied by a short film directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy, with director of photography Christopher Blauvelt. 

Kim Gordon has announced UK and European headline and festival dates this Spring. A full list of dates is below with more dates to be announced soon. Tickets are on sale now HERE.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

April 12 – Variations Festival, Nantes, France

April 14 – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK

April 15 – Ancient Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium

April 17 – Le Trianon, Paris, France

April 19 – Huxley’s Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany

April 20 – A2, Wroclaw, Poland

April 21 – Progesja, Warsaw, Poland