Perry's Pen

I’m finally giving Kim Gordon’s new album The Collective some time.

I can’t fully comprehend the record yet. However, I am increasingly drawn to it.

I play one track, then another. As the music plays on, Kim weaves a spell around me. The Collective soon becomes irresistible, and I am soon addicted: “Just one more song.” Before I know it, I am on my third full playthrough of The Collective, engrossed in it.

At first, I thought “This music is something you’d hear at a party/event where you move from room to room. It would be the music in one room amongst many others. And it is more of a soundscape than music.”

I am not so sure about that now.

I also thought that The Collective sounds like it is from a different dimension. Maybe it is a whole new kind of music drug that the kids dig, but I don’t quite understand.

Perhaps these songs are further indications that the future has arrived. But to me, it might sound like the future from the past. Something from the old Kathleen Turner movie Crimes of Passion, perhaps.

Speaking of visual mediums, check out the official music video for Psychedelic Orgasm.

I like The Collective. I like that Kim has my noggin working a little bit.

The Collective is out now, and Kim Gordon is currently on tour. Why not give The Collective some of your time?