{"product_id":"4582616195289","title":"Kim Gordon PLAY ME (OLE2198CDJP) Japan Music CD","description":"Product Description\nKim Gordon, an icon who needs no introduction and is an indispensable part of music history, has released her third solo album, \"PLAY ME\"! Kim Gordon, an icon who needs no introduction and is an indispensable part of music history, has released her third solo album, \"PLAY ME,\" on Matador Records. Her solo debut album, \"No Home Record,\" released in 2019, proved that she still maintains a cutting-edge sound sensibility. Incorporating avant-rap and footwork, the album, reconstructed as conceptual art through sound, vividly showed where she stands now. Her second album, \"The Collective,\" released in 2024, was even heavier and bolder, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards, led by \"BYE BYE,\" an industrial roar that fuses a list of belongings with angry rap. In \"PLAY ME,\" delivered without delay, Kim Gordon deals with the \"collateral damage\" caused by the billionaire class in her own unique way. The dismantling of democracy, the suffocating control system that results from a society where technology and experts decide everything, and the feeling that only a \"comfortable atmosphere\" is mass-produced by AI, leveling out culture?in this work, black humor speaks to the absurdity of modern society. However, despite its often outward-looking perspective, \"PLAY ME\" is also an introspective album at its core. The heightened emotional amplitude pulsates within the physical jam, rejecting definitive messages, and driven by the very act of questioning, it is constantly evolving without ever settling into a finished form. \"PLAY ME\" is a refined and immediately impactful work, expanding Kim Gordon's sound palette to more melodic beats and the mechanical propulsion characteristic of Krautrock. Regarding her ongoing collaboration with Los Angeles producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor), Kim Gordon says: \"I wanted the songs to be short. I just wanted to make them quickly. They're more focused, and probably more confident than the last one. I'm always the type of person who starts with the rhythm when creating songs, and this time I wanted to make it even more beat-driven than the last one. Justin really understands my voice and lyrics, and he knows my way of doing things. I think that feeling comes through even more strongly on this album.\" Amidst the collage-like sense of reality being endlessly dug into, the pitch-shifted vocals, and the layers of unsettling dissonance that permeate 'PLAY ME,' her music continues to draw clear attention to a world that tries to drive us into a state of mental stagnation through distractions. \"To be honest, the biggest influence was the news,\" she says. \"We're in a kind of 'post-empire' era now, a world where people just disappear.\" This statement echoes the title of one of the tracks on the album 'PLAY ME'. \u003ctracklist\u003e 01. PLAY ME 02. GIRL WITH A LOOK 03. NO HANDS 04. BLACK OUT 05. DIRTY TECH 06. NOT TODAY 07. BUSY BEE 08. SQUARE JAW 09. SUBCON 10. POST EMPIRE 11. NAIL BITER 12. BYEBYE 25!\u003c\/tracklist\u003e","brand":"TOKYO JAPAN CD SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53224865857845,"sku":"4582616195289","price":4800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/5966\/5973\/files\/31RJvjoM3VL._AC.jpg?v=1785320971","url":"https:\/\/tokyojapancdshop.com\/products\/4582616195289","provider":"TOKYO JAPAN CD SHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}