{"id":5364,"date":"2019-10-18T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2019-10-17T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T19:59:47","slug":"sonic-youths-kim-gordon-drops-first-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/2019\/10\/18\/sonic-youths-kim-gordon-drops-first-solo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon Drops First Solo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As one of the founding members of Sonic Youth,\nKim Gordon has an acclaimed status in the music industry. Sonic Youth had a\n30-year run, making a name for themselves with songs like \u201cTeenage Riot\u201d and\n\u201cKool Thing\u201d. However, trying to go into No\nHome Record<\/em> with a Sonic Youth mindset, or anything other than complete\nopenness, will leave you completely disoriented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite making music for nearly 40 years, No Home Record<\/em> is Gordon\u2019s first ever\nsolo album. With 9 tracks total, the album starts off with \u201cSketch Artist\u201d, a\ncombination of violin and harp chords, Gordon\u2019s ultra-raspy voice, and a beat\nthat sounds inspired by the band Death Grips. Even without any previous\nassumptions of her sound, this track isn\u2019t anything anyone could have expected,\nespecially as an opener. Following \u201cSketch Artist\u201d is \u201cAirBnB\u201d, which is\ninfinitely more pleasing to listen to than the track that precedes it. The\ncrunchy guitar tones are slightly reminiscent of the grunginess that might be\nfound on a Sonic Youth album, but the song as a whole separates Gordon from\nanything she\u2019s previously created with a group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many of the recent interviews of Gordon\nregarding the album, she emphasizes the importance of the social undertones in\nher tracks that have always been present in her art: women\u2019s rights, the end of\ncapitalism, and the criticism of consumerism, to name a few. It\u2019s clear that\nGordon\u2019s intention isn\u2019t by any means to make music for the masses, or even\nmusic that is necessarily enjoyable to listen to, but instead to create a\nrecord that explores topics pertinent to her as a woman from Los Angeles.\nUnfortunately, the beats on No Home Record<\/em> are difficult to follow. While\nthere is a clear attempt at trying to mirror the disarray of society in her\nmusic, Gordon\u2019s mumbled vocals over disorienting beats seem to do more harm\nthan good in regard to getting Gordon\u2019s message across. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, No Home Record<\/em> does begin to shine after the first two tracks.\n\u201cPaprika Pony” allows Gordon\u2019s vocals to take the stage, unlike the first two\ntracks whose beats were so chaotic that it was difficult to make out her\nlyrics. \u201cMurdered Out\u201d and \u201cHungry Baby\u201d are my two personal favorites on the\nrecord, for both their musical and lyrical content. \u201cMurdered Out\u201d comments on\nthe rejection and reclamation of social trends. \u201cMurdered out of my heart\/covered\nin black matte spray\u201d opens the song, and in an interview with Rolling Stone,\nGordon states that the idea of black matte everything- cars, nail polish,\nclothing designs- is a look into how culture is collapsing in on itself. The\nrejection of the shiny and new has ironically become a trend in and of itself,\nand Gordon equates it to \u201ca black hole, the supreme look inward\u2026 the outsider\nas an unwilling participant as the \u2018it\u2019 look.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album finishes with \u201cGet Yr Life Back\u201d, an\namalgamation of everything No Home Record<\/em>\nsymbolizes. There\u2019s a quiet beat, like footsteps, over Gordon\u2019s spoken-word\nlyrics, as she comments on Twitter, changing your appearance through makeup\n(\u201cfake lashes on your pillow\u201d) and the end of capitalism. The record ends with\nthree lines: \u201cI feel bad for you\/ I feel bad for me\/ Get your life back, yoga.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Home Record<\/em> was nothing I could have possibly expected. Aside from any previous assumptions tied to Gordon\u2019s association with Sonic Youth, it has grown on me. While the first two tracks left something to be desired, the rest of the album was gritty and real, a rejection of society\u2019s norms and expectations both in lyrical content and in the disorienting nature of the music itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As one of the founding members of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon has an acclaimed status in the music industry. Sonic Youth had a 30-year run, making a name for themselves with songs like \u201cTeenage Riot\u201d and \u201cKool Thing\u201d. However, trying to go into No Home Record with a Sonic Youth mindset, or anything other than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":5368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,530,32],"tags":[330,798,797,799,576,104,129,795,796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}