Kim Gordon - 2026 - Not Today - Moni Haworth

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Kim Gordon announces new album, ‘Play Me’ with new single ‘Not Today’

Wed 14 January 2026 14:09, UK

Kim Gordon has announced her new album, titled Play Me, which is set for release on March 13th via Matador Records.

Gordon has also released a new track, ‘Not Today’, to start the year as she means to go on.

On the emotional new track, which wobbles with motorik drums and swelling guitars, Gordon’s voice takes on a different timbre. Speaking about the vocal choice, Gordon has shared, “I started singing in a way I hadn’t sung in a long time. This other voice came out.”

The new track is also accompanied by a short film directed by Rodarte fashion label founders and filmmakers Kate and Laura Mulleavy, along with director of photography Christopher Blauvelt.

On Play Me, fans can expect short, snappy tracks: “We wanted the songs to be short. We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident.” Gordon has continued to collaborate with Justin Raisen on this record, who has previously worked with the likes of Charli XCX and Yves Tumor.

As has come to be expected from Gordon, the new record promises to investigate “the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fueled chill-vibes flattening of culture.”

While the title track endlessly recites the names of Spotify playlists over a trip-hop groove (“Rich popular girl / Villain mode / Jazz in the background / Chilling after work,”) in an absurdist pastiche, the closer is the pre-released ‘ByeBye25’, which reinvents Gordon’s The Collective opener with new lyrics repurposed from Trump’s banned-words list.

Far Out gave Gordon’s last record, 2024’s The Collective, a glowing four-star review, observing that the impressive innovation throughout the full-length album “proves the musician’s vital legacy.”