Kim Gordon - Play Me

Play Me is the third solo studio album by American musician and Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon, released in March 2026 via Matador Records.

Kim Gordon's third album, Play Me, is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says. “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident."

The follow-up to 2024’s Justin Raisen-produced, two-time Grammy-nominated The Collective processes, in her inimitable way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fuelled chill-vibes flattening of culture - where dark humour voices the absurdity of modern life.

Despite its frequent outward gaze, Play Me is an interior record, one in which a heightened emotionality pulses through physical jams, rejecting definitive statements in favour of an inquisitiveness that keeps Gordon searching, ever in process.

This album is an indies exclusive limited edition on white coloured vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in the US via Matador Records.