Gordi

Release Date: 06/26/2020 Format: LP Label: Jagjaguwar – JAG358 Release type: Crisp White Colored Vinyl LP Pressing Losing someone close to you creates an almost phantom limb-like effect. Often, it feels like they're a phone call away. But that instant between when you reach for the phone and when your brain delivers the new reality to you is a strange, momentary eternity. It's both an uncompromising void and maybe as close as you'll ever come to communing with that loved one again. On her new song "Sandwiches," Gordi harnesses all the sadness and glory of this feeling into a soaring, post-new wave anthem. One of the first true Gordi "guitar songs," it shimmers with the lush-yet-fragile momentum of The Cranberries' classic "Dreams." Gordi wrote "Sandwiches" as a tribute to the matriarch of her family. Her late grandmother was, in Gordi's words, "a great feeder of people." So when she fell ill, Gordi and her mother took it upon themselves to nourish the visitors gathered around he