Debut full-length release for Kim Gordon's post-Sonic Youth project with guitarist Bill Nace

Gatefold double LP

"(Kim Gordon) acknowledges that recording Coming Apart, the new double album from Body/Head, her collaboration with noise guitarist Bill Nace, was a cathartic experience. But anyone expecting this to be her Rumours or Blood on the Tracks — her “divorce album,” in other words — is just going to end up more confused." — Willamette Week

Kim Gordon doesn't fit the mold of a "celebrity divorcee," still when Gordon left Thurston Moore, her husband of 27 years and Sonic Youth bandmate for even longer, in 2011, fans were understandably curious why. There's not a whole lot of revelation in Coming Apart. "I like lyrics to always be ambiguous, but they were much influenced by (French filmmaker) Catherine Breillat's movies as they were things happening in my life," says Gordon, 60.

That said, Coming Apart "certainly plays like someone processing a personal crisis. Atonal guitars clang and scrape as Gordon, her voice shakier and more fragile than usual, recites snippets of dialogue like 'I can only think of you in the abstract' and 'I feel so weak, so stupid'; on the tantalizingly titled 'Last Mistress' she even woofs like a subservient puppy," writes reviewer Matthew Singer.

Vocally, on Coming Apart, Gordon is reborn. This challenging, but beautiful album counts "as another fascinating step in that journey and Body/Head's musical path as one that she and Nace will hopefully follow for a long time." — Pitchfork, Sept. 10, 2013.

Track Listing
Side 1
Abstract
Murderess
Last Mistress

Side 2
Actress
Everything Left
Can’t Help You

Side 3
Aint
Black

Side 4
Frontal