Are You Bold Or Stuck Like Glue

Kim Gordon “Not Today”

After a few years exploring very modern electronic sounds, Kim Gordon has circled back to Sonic Youth aesthetic territory without actually sounding like anything Sonic Youth ever made. “Not Today” has a hypnotic motorik groove and woozy shoegaze guitars, both of which I’d say are adjacent to that band’s sound without ever really being something they actually did. This makes the song feel both familiar and slightly off, like a random person you know appearing in your dream in some peculiar context doing something that doesn’t quite make sense outside of dream logic.

And it sounds dreamy too. The music whooshes along, but it’s all velocity and no weight. Gordon is there in the center of it, seeming to holler at the sound passing by her. The lyrics don’t click into narrative, but you get the gist of the feeling whether she’s singing “there’s a hole in my heart” or wondering why Postmates hasn’t delivered her gum.

Buy it from Bandcamp.