Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album, 'The Collective'

Kim Gordon has said that she doesn't view herself as a musician. Rather, Gordon sees herself more as an artist who makes music. This singularly iconoclastic approach to music-making has guided the way Gordon, who is also a painter, has forged conceptually inventive music for four decades and counting: Her attention to negative space and phrasing shimmer through the no-wave jams she created with her former band Sonic Youth from the late 1980s until the early 2010s, and her textured guitar playing lends the improvisational two-piece she performs in with Bill Nace, Body/Head, an experimental edge.

Gordon's thrilling new solo music draws from a similar visual ethos, too. When asked about the songs on her forthcoming album, her second solo effort , Gordon says she thinks of them as "little movies." But in a plot twist, one of those short films has short-circuited the internet as of late. Released in January, the single "BYE BYE" took on a life of its own on TikTok, with Gordon's menacing vocals, rattling