Gordi – Inhuman

Gordi – the project of Australian musician Sophie Payten – announces her new EP, Inhuman, out July 15th on Jagjaguwar, and shares the lead single/video, “Way I Go.”

With little more than guitar and Payten’s reverb-drenched vocals, the sparse “Way I Go” is wrenching and accompanied by a gorgeous video from Triana Hernandez.

“‘Way I Go’ is about the newness and the oldness of being in love. How it saturates and warms you, expands and transforms,” Payten says. “The video was filmed in one afternoon and features me putting my short-lived career as a swim instructor to good use, before walking around the streets of Brunswick in Melbourne in a dusty pink blazer I bought for $5 from the local Goodwill store.”

Hernandez adds, “The video for ‘Way I Go’ is a seemingly minimal concept – a simple walk toward the house of someone you love, collecting flowers along the way…yet the level of emotional rollercoasters happening within transforms the walk into an ethereal and organic experience, well beyond the streets of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.”

The six-track EP, Inhuman, explores the trials of humanity, from love and identity to faith and religion, traversing the spectrum of sorrow to celebration.  The tracks that comprise the EP came together from a range of sessions over the years in Reykjavik, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Until earlier this year, Payten also balanced work as a doctor, assisting with under-staffed local hospitals in Melbourne and regional Australia during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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