The former Sonic Youth co-leader Kim Gordon has been recording for 35 years, and she has never released a song under her own name until today. She’s dropped the new single “Murdered Out,” a feverish noise-rock song with an absolutely monster groove. Los Angeles car culture inspired the song, and Gordon worked on it with Sky Ferreira/Angel Olsen producer Justin Raisen, with Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa playing drums. It’s heavier and more rhythmic than anything Kim Gordon has done in a long time, but it still has a freewheeling experimental-noise sensibility. It’s just an awesome song Kim has this to say about the premise to the song,
When I moved back to LA, I noticed more and more cars painted with black matte spray, tinted windows, blackened logos, and black wheels. This was something I had occasionally seen in the past, part of low rider car culture. A reclaiming of a corporate symbol of American success, The Car, from an outsider’s point of view. A statement-making rejection of the shiny brand new look, the idea of a new start, the promise of power, and the freedom on the open road. Like an option on a voting ballot, “none of the above.”
“Murdered Out,” as a look, is now creeping into mainstream culture as a design trend. A coffee brand. A clothing line. A nailpolish color.
Black-on-black matte is the ultimate expression in digging out, getting rid of, purging the soul. Like a black hole, the supreme inward look, a culture collapsing in on itself, the outsider as an unwilling participant as the “It” look.
“Murdered Out” is out now on Matador Records.
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