"Kim Gordon's 'The Collective': Exploding Expectations in Four Decades"
Kim Gordon's second solo album, The Collective, is a cacophony of mundane thoughts, funny asides, and flashes of pure rage set to ear-splitting trap beats and churning industrial guitar, reflecting her mordant curiosity about mainstream culture. Produced by Justin Raisen, the album features fractured, stream-of-consciousness lyrics that eschew poetry or diarism, creating an impulsive and lizard-brained vibe. Gordon's trademark breathy sprechgesang is layered over trap beats, resulting in a dense and invigorating album that blurs the lines between resilience and brokenness, sex and violence, and mundanity and surrealism.