Kim Gordon | Berlin

Name: Kim Gordon | Berlin
Start: 2026-04-19T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Huxleys Neue Welt

Schedule

Sun, 19 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Huxleys Neue Welt | Berlin, BE

Support: The New Eves
The legendary Kim Gordon returns to Berlin with her third solo album PLAY ME. Sharp, distilled, and strikingly direct, the record widens Gordon’s sonic terrain, weaving in more melodic rhythmic structures alongside the propulsive motorik pulse of krautrock. As ever, she filters the present moment through her singular lens, dissecting the fallout of the billionaire class, the erosion of democratic ideals, the creep of technocratic end-times fascism, and the A.I.-polished chill-vibes smoothing culture into something eerily inert. With her caustic wit and dark humor, Gordon captures the strange absurdities of contemporary life. Though the album frequently looks outward, PLAY ME ultimately unfolds as an interior work, charged with heightened emotion coursing through tactile, physical jams, favoring curiosity and open-ended exploration over fixed conclusions.
Opening, the aurals of The New Eves bend the archaic into the current, often flipping perspective and centering autonomy and identity. Formed in Brighton, they pull together flute, cello, bass, violin and drums into a form of folk storytelling that’s neither delicate nor whimsical. This is the old folk, physical and a touch unhinged, dug from the dirt and born of struggle. Poems and fragments are stretched, looped, and reworked, spoken passages colliding with driving rhythms and repeated phrases which, performed live, beg for audience call-and-response. Constant communal instrument switching and movement lends a deliciously tense instability, songs sometimes nearly falling apart before snapping back into shape.