Gordi – Broke Scene
Today, Gordi (aka Sophie Payten) presents her new single/video, “Broke Scene,” on Jagjaguwar. Co-produced with Ethan Gruska (Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, Sky Ferreira), “Broke Scene” is expansive yet intimate, and boasts mixing credits from previous collaborator Jon Low (Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift, The National).
Dubbing the track a product of a “yum cha fever dream,” Gordi explains that while working around the clock during a week-long writing residency at an inner-city Sydney studio last year, she abandoned the piano and laptop and meandered down to Chinatown for a late morning yum cha feast. After, Gordi opted for a nap, nestled up against the legs of the PH piano she was working at. As soon as she woke up, “Broke Scene” flowed out of her from start to finish, as she scrambled to capture it on tape in the moment.
Gordi elaborates on that hazy creative moment, “The Lazy Susan spun around the yum cha table as I drained the last of my Tsingtao. I had an afternoon of writing ahead of me, which was giving me ‘the Sunday feeling.’ I was in such a post lunch haze when I got back to the piano, that I thought I’d just lie down and close my eyes for a second. I woke up an hour later in a cold yum cha sweat. Almost robotically I picked up a guitar and started playing this riff, as if I’d been dreaming about it. I looped a drum part over the top that my friend Chris Messina had sent me. By the time the sun set, I had written ‘Broke Scene’.”
“Broke Scene” is a stunning track, laced with an uplifting arrangement anchored to a persistent pulse, with questions of resignation and internal restlessness: “Can you see, you’re burning your house down?” The accompanying “Broke Scene” video, directed by James Dryden, actualizes Gordi’s emotion-ladled, contagious fever dream.
Gordi Tour Dates
Thu. Mar. 2 – Brisbane, AUS @ Riverstage *
Sat. Mar. 4 – Melbourne, AUS @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl *
Sun. Mar. 5 – Melbourne, AUS @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl *
Wed. Mar. 15 – Sydney, AUS @ World Pride (Phoenix Central Park)
- w/ Bon Iver
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