Gordi – Inhuman

Gordi – the project of LA-via-Sydney artist Sophie Payten – shares “Inhuman” from her new EP, Inhuman, out August 19th on Jagjaguwar.

“When I wrote ‘Inhuman,’ I was thinking about the blackened roadsides on my drive from Sydney to Lismore in 2019,” explains Payten. “I had to turn back halfway because the fires were too out of control. I was supposed to start work in Lismore Hospital on the Monday where I would meet countless patients who couldn’t be discharged because their homes had been destroyed. Hearing one story after the next made me numb, and being numb to that sort of tragedy feels like forgetting to be human.” Until earlier this year, Payten continued working as a doctor, assisting with under-staffed local hospitals in Melbourne and regional Australia during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the accompanying video for “Inhuman” by Triana Hernandez. Payten envisioned escaping the inescapable. “I pictured a giant red lobster – stalking me until eventually I couldn’t ignore it anymore.”