New Solo Kim Gordon

also, thurston can do the instro free skronk thing (especially in duo) as well as any other rock person when he wants to. not to be captain-save-a-thurston or anything.

Yeah, I mean, setting aside (I know, I know) the personal issues with Thurston, he's still done some interesting stuff since SY split. His bad poetry is indeed bad and not needed, but that three disc instrumental thing, Spirit Counsel, was really good.

And I seem to be in the minority, but I actually liked that Chelsea Light Moving band he briefly had with Samara Lubelski and Keith Wood.

Kim's lyrics have always been 95% abysmal, it's sort of part of what is appealing about her whole thing— they're so bad and forced that the boldness of someone speak-singing them is weirdly magnetic.

my only complaint about The Collective (cd) is the bass (kicks & low freqs) are mixed so loud that i can't turn up the volume unless the bass pot is dialed back to 20% on my receiver, making everything else sound thin asF. it's a gnarly sounding album, which is pleasing.

this isn't bad but the idea of it is better than it actually is. like it's cool and exciting she's making something that sounds like this but i'm not really moved by the result

I'm finding the thing (album) to be sonically pleasing and interesting on a sound design / production level. Not bcz 'omg, it's kim gordon--she's 70 years old, how audacious!)' ... it's a compelling listen. I'm into free-form noise art and have a couple of body/head CDs, but they haven't grabbed me like this one has. still haven't heard no home record

To my ears this is a lot better than No Home Record - more “of a piece” in a way that’s sticky, that makes me want to return to it.

Body/Head is overall more my thing but that’s probably because noisy guitars

I'm with ufo. The monochromatic mood and pace aren't attracting me yet.

there are things to like about it for sure and i think it's onto something with the mix of sounds here, i just don't love it. i would love to hear more noise rock/rage fusion like "bye bye" for sure

only listened a couple times but nothing seemed to reach the high of ‘bye bye’, although there are some pretty cool beats and i liked the vocal distortion effect on some songs

one thing is for sure, anyone who likes this album should listen to the song "x & sex" by osamason

Interesting article about a copyright lawsuit centered around a photo of Gordon. Something I learned by reading this article: Richard Prince did the cover to Sonic Nurse.

"Everyone involved here is still an outsider punk kid in their own mind."

that's a great line. thanks for that article, I hadn't heard about this (I was familiar with the Emily Ratakjowski controversy though).