Celebrating The Collective’s arrival, musician and visual artist Kim Gordon today announces a national Australian tour adding a fresh run of dates to her international schedule. Taking in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne in July, she’ll feature on coveted festivals Unsound Adelaide and Open Frame.
Thursday, 18th July | TBA, Sydney
Friday, 19th July | TBA, Sydney
Saturday, 20th July | Unsound Adelaide @ Dom Polski Centre
Sunday, 21st July | Open Frame, Brisbane Powerhouse
Wednesday, 24th July | Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
The tour will highlight her recently released second solo album The Collective. It arrived alongside a video for the focus track ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’, directed by Kim Gordon and musician/filmmaker/producer Vice Cooler. With its quick cuts and upside down tableaus of desiccated pumpkins, giant inflatables and shopping mall escalators, the Los Angeles-set clip is as disorienting as ‘Psychedelic Orgasm’ itself.
‘Psychedelic Orgasm’ follows previously released singles and videos ‘I’m A Man’ and ‘BYE BYE,’ which both star Coco Gordon Moore.
Recorded in Gordon’s native Los Angeles, The Collective follows her 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. The album advances their joint world building, with Raisin’s damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, which conjure communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload.