Presales start the morning of January 30th. Opening act TBA.
The legendary Kim Gordon returns to Berlin with her third solo album PLAY ME. Sharp, distilled, and strikingly direct, the record widens Gordon’s sonic terrain, weaving in more melodic rhythmic structures alongside the propulsive motorik pulse of krautrock. As ever, she filters the present moment through her singular lens, dissecting the fallout of the billionaire class, the erosion of democratic ideals, the creep of technocratic end-times fascism, and the A.I.-polished chill-vibes smoothing culture into something eerily inert. With her caustic wit and dark humor, Gordon captures the strange absurdities of contemporary life. Though the album frequently looks outward, PLAY ME ultimately unfolds as an interior work, charged with heightened emotion coursing through tactile, physical jams, favoring curiosity and open-ended exploration over fixed conclusions.
A barrier-breaker in relentlessly male-dominated cultural spaces, Gordon has long embodied an effortless cool paired with fearless, disciplined experimentation. For decades she has remained a vital and galvanizing presence, inspiring generations by refusing compromise or stagnation. What Gordon's art, her life, and her cool have never been contingent on anyone else—through time and sustained creation she has steadied her own course, and now she steers once more toward thrilling and uncharted waters.
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