Gordi Shares Awaited Third Album ‘Like Plasticine’

Alongside Like Plasticine’s release, Gordi shares a video for key track ‘Your Consolation Prize’. Co-produced by Brad Cook (Snail Mail, Jensen McRae, Bon Iver), the song recalls the best of synth-pop savants The Postal Service – and, over drum machines backed by a soft choir of voices, represents Gordi at her full power. It grapples with the reality that, for all the acceptance and closeness she has found since coming out, there will always be young queer people whose lives will have qualifications or asterisks hanging over them because they don’t fit neatly into the mould.

Like Plasticine chronicles the last few transformative years of Gordi’s life. From coming out and having to adjust the vision of her future, to working as a doctor on the frontline during the pandemic, Gordi explores the beauty, heartbreak and finite nature of human experience across 12 new songs. Co-produced by Gordi, the album includes the cuts ‘Peripheral Lover’, ‘Cutting Room Floor’, ‘PVC Divide’ (feat. Anaïs Mitchell) and ‘Lunch At Dune’.

Songs from Like Plasticine has solidified Gordi’s global footprint, drawing acclaim from Grammy.com, The Guardian, NPR, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Dork and more, with radio love from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6, Radio X, and major AAA stations in the US including KEXP, KCRW, and Sirius XM. In addition, two billboards in Times Square have seen Gordi front and centre representing Spotify’s GLOW and Amazon Music’s PROUD.

In celebration of the album’s release this weekend, Gordi will perform under a full moon at MCA’s Full Bloom event in Sydney – the stunning Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge her backdrop. She will also appear at Hum Music in Newtown on Saturday afternoon, playing a handful of songs from the album and signing records, and at Oh! Jean Records in Melbourne on Tuesday evening.

Next month, Gordi will return to the UK and Europe for the Bryce Dessner curated Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival and Residency in Cork, Ireland, along with Reeperbahn Festival in Germany and a run of headline dates. She will then make her way back to Australia for a special intimate show at the Sydney Opera House (Playhouse Theatre) in October, with further dates to be announced soon. That will be followed by tour dates with revered British singer-songwriter David Gray in November.

GORDI TOUR DATES

AUSTRALIA

Saturday 9 August – Full Bloom at MCA, Sydney NSW (Evening)

Saturday 9 August – Hum Music, Newtown NSW (1PM – FREE IN-STORE PERFORMANCE)

Tuesday 12 August – Oh! Jean Records, Fitzroy VIC (5:30PM – FREE IN-STORE PERFORMANCE)

Saturday 23 August – Darwin Festival, Darwin NT

EUROPE

11-14 September – Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival, Cork IRE

Wednesday 17 September – Jaki, Cologne DE

Thursday 18 September – Lark, Berlin DE

Friday 19 September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg DE

Sunday 21 September – TivoliVrendenburg (Club Nine), Utrecht NL

Monday 22 September – Rust, Copenhagen DK

Wednesday 24 September – Trix Bar, Antwerp BE

AUSTRALIA

Friday 17 October – Sydney Opera House (Playhouse), Sydney NSW

AUSTRALIA (WITH DAVID GRAY)

Tuesday 4 November – Riverside Theatre, PCEC, Perth WA

Wednesday 5 November – Riverside Theatre, PCEC, Perth WA

Friday 7 November – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide SA SOLD OUT

Sunday 9 November – Palais Theatre, Melbourne VIC SOLD OUT

Monday 10 November – Palais Theatre, Melbourne VIC

Wednesday 12 November – State Theatre, Sydney NSW SOLD OUT

Thursday 13 November – State Theatre, Sydney NSW SOLD OUT

Saturday 15 November – QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD SOLD OUT

Sunday 16 November (Matinee) – QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD SOLD OUT

Sunday 16 November (Evening) – QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD SOLD OUT