Kim Gordon
The Collective
76--100点相当
musicOMH が満点
良い感じだと思うが、
アルバムとしてはしんどいかなぁ。
この曲群でのライブとかも
どうもたせるんだろうと心配してしまう。
一部の曲で、
なんとなーくだが、久々に
Beck の Mellow Gold あたりを思い出させてもらった。
In her former band, she often stood at a disdainful remove from American culture, but now burrows under the skin of her subjects. Take second single ‘I’m A Man’, on which she flips Sonic Youth’s ‘Kool Thing’ (“Are you gonna liberate us girls from white, male, corporate oppression?”) to play the kind of entitled sad sack who stormed the Capitol in 2021: “It’s not my fault I was born a man… Don’t call me toxic.” The twist is that he seems to be hiding a more feminine side, a tragedy mirrored in the oppressive soundscape that crushes Gordon’s lyrics.
Not all of these experiments quite come off: the industrial clang of ‘It’s Dark Inside’, on which she drawls, “they don’t teach clit in school / Like do Lit”, veers close to ‘Yeezus’ parody. It’s notable, though, how contemporary her distorted art-punk sounds, given the ongoing grunge resurgence and the fact that Olivia Rodrigo’s taking The Breeders on tour this year. Despite her new album’s title, here is an icon who’s spent more than four decades making truly individual art.
Beck / Mellow Gold
