Gordi – Cutting Room Floor
Australian indie-pop singer, songwriter and producer Gordi – aka Sophie Payten – shares new song “Cutting Room Floor,” from her forthcoming album Like Plasticine, out August 8.
The release of “Cutting Room Floor” is accompanied by a cathartic, joy-filled official video filmed in Dallas with Jared Freider (Three Months) and Daniel Dubiecki (JUNO) and news of Gordi supporting revered English singer-songwriter David Gray on his Australian Tour this November (who recently spotted her cover of “Please Forgive Me” and shared it online).
Co-produced with Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Snail Mail, Jensen McRae) in Durham, North Caroline, the upbeat and utterly infectious “Cutting Room Floor” is about shedding relationships that served a past version of oneself. It was written at Phoenix Central Park in Sydney, where Gordi set up a makeshift studio, surrounded by a circle of instruments that she used to create a series of loops that she would then write to. The finishing touches were added in the midwest, where the pair finessed many of the album’s final cuts. Gordi and Brad first met while collaborating as part of Justin Vernon’s Big Red Machine project a few years back.
“‘Cutting Room Floor” is a song about growing pains, about the slow splintering that happens between people. I took the song to Durham in North Carolina to work on with my friend, Brad Cook. Matt McCaughan came over and played drums, and Brad and I filled in the rest.
It was one of those songs that seemed to expand to fit any idea, and it was a real joy to work on. Jared Frieder and I shot the video in a carpark in Dallas as the sun was setting in the middle of a sweltering heatwave. I ate a whole pack of Twizzlers when we finished in an effort to abate my delirium.” – Gordi
GORDI – TOUR DATES
UK/ EUROPE
Tuesday 13 May – The Lower Third, London UK
Wednesday 14 May – The Cellars, Bristol UK
Thursday 15 May – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton UK
Friday 16 May – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton UK
Saturday 17 May – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton UK
Tuesday 20 May – Supersonic Records, Paris FR
US (WITH ANAIS MITCHELL)
Monday 9 June – Racket, NYC US
+ more dates to be announced
AUSTRALIA (WITH DAVID GRAY)
Tuesday 4 November – Riverside Theatre, PCEC, Perth WA [SOLD OUT]
Wednesday 5 November – Riverside Theatre, PCEC, Perth WA [NEW SHOW]
Friday 7 November – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide SA
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]
Sunday 15 November – QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD [SOLD OUT]
Sunday 16 November – QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD [SOLD OUT]
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