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- Summary: The second full-length solo release from Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon was produced by Justin Raisen.
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- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mar 7, 2024This is an astonishing album.
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Mar 7, 2024The cacophonous, vexing, endlessly fascinating The Collective represents the experience of logging off and finding that your perception of the real world has been forever altered. Few are better equipped than Gordon—who, at 70, is still cooler, smarter, and more fearless than most—to guide us through.
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Mar 4, 2024Gordon manages to hit that sweet spot, creating an album that is adventurous, charmingly deadpan and visceral at every turn.
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Mar 1, 2024Tracks such as Psychedelic Orgasm and It’s Dark Inside embody the claustrophobic and saturnine atmosphere on what is essentially an underground hip-hop record made by an inveterate envelope-pushing postmodernist.
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Mar 7, 2024Her eye for her own artistic point of view has never been sharper. The rest of the record is an equally thrilling ride.
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Apr 3, 2024The Collective is hard to pin down, but that is part of what makes it so compelling.
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Mar 11, 2024Unfortunately, Gordon’s spiky, staccato delivery is too often drowned in distortion and diminished by tune-dodging cacophony. So many songs, such as Trophies, are tense yet torpid, and when the airless intensity clears briefly on Shelf Warmer it’s too late.