Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon has never needed anyone's permission to make a racket, and her solo work is the glorious, snarling proof. The co-architect of Sonic Youth’s No Wave demolition now trades feedback squalls for something more sinister. On records like 2019's Matador debut No Home Record and its follow-up The Collective, she works with producer Justin Raisen to weld her deadpan poetry and sudden screams to fractured trap beats and industrial clang. This isn't a victory lap; it's a raw, confrontational transmission from an artist who still finds the most compelling sounds lurking at the margins. It’s the sound of someone not looking back, but torching the present.