New Music - Gordi launches 'Like Plasticine' - 8th August 2025
Photo Credit: Brianna da Silva
Artist Name - Gordi
Release Name - Like Plasticine
Release Date - 8th August 2025
Genre - Indie-Pop, Synth-Pop, Alternative
Label - Mushroom Music
Australian indie-pop singer, songwriter and producer Gordi, today releases her exquisite third album, Like Plasticine. She also shares news of a special Sydney Opera House show in October to commemorate the album launch.
Many moons in the making, the arrival of Like Plasticine comes off the back of a whirlwind few weeks for Gordi, including tour dates with Foster The People in Europe, shows in the US for Lollapalooza, Hinterland Festival and a number of momentous appearances on US TV including The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS Mornings as well as a KEXP session. Now back for a short stay in Australia ahead of further touring overseas, Gordi shares her excitement for the release: “Today, as I finally set this album free, I am reminded of its beginning. Deep in the middle of the pandemic I began writing the songs that would make up ‘Like Plasticine’, wondering what the purpose of music was at all. I tried to stop thinking and just feel. When I look back on that time now, sitting in Phoenix Central Park surrounded by things I could make music with, I see ‘Like Plasticine’ arriving as though it was a fire hydrant erupting. Everything we try to contain comes out one way or another. So when you listen to this record, un-contain yourself, stop thinking, and just feel.” - Gordi
Alongside Like Plasticine’s release, Gordi shares a video for key track ‘Your Consolation Prize’. Co-produced by Brad Cook (Snail Mail, Jensen McRae, Bon Iver), the song recalls the best of synth-pop savants The Postal Service – and, over drum machines backed by a soft choir of voices, represents Gordi at her full power. It grapples with the reality that, for all the acceptance and closeness she has found since coming out, there will always be young queer people whose lives will have qualifications or asterisks hanging over them because they don’t fit neatly into the mould.
Like Plasticine chronicles the last few transformative years of Gordi’s life. From coming out and having to adjust the vision of her future, to working as a doctor on the frontline during the pandemic, Gordi explores the beauty, heartbreak and finite nature of human experience across 12 new songs. Co-produced by Gordi, the album includes the cuts ‘Peripheral Lover’, ‘Cutting Room Floor’, ‘PVC Divide’ (feat. Anaïs Mitchell) and ‘Lunch At Dune’.
Songs from Like Plasticine has solidified Gordi’s global footprint, drawing acclaim from Grammy.com, The Guardian, NPR, Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Dork and more, with radio love from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6, Radio X, and major AAA stations in the US including KEXP, KCRW, and Sirius XM. In addition, two billboards in Times Square have seen Gordi front and centre representing Spotify’s GLOW and Amazon Music’s PROUD.
In celebration of the album’s release this weekend, Gordi will perform under a full moon at MCA’s Full Bloom event in Sydney – the stunning Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge her backdrop. She will also appear at Hum Music in Newtown on Saturday afternoon, playing a handful of songs from the album and signing records, and at Oh! Jean Records in Melbourne on Tuesday evening.
Next month, Gordi will return to the UK and Europe for the Bryce Dessner curated Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival and Residency in Cork, Ireland, along with Reeperbahn Festival in Germany and a run of headline dates. She will then make her way back to Australia for a special intimate show at the Sydney Opera House (Playhouse Theatre) in October, with further dates to be announced soon. That will be followed by tour dates with revered British singer-songwriter David Gray in November.
MORE ABOUT GORDI …
An award-winning and beloved Aussie export with tens of millions of streams to her name, Gordi has an impressive history, including two full-length album releases and collaborations with Troye Sivan, Bon Iver, Ben Bohmer, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and more. The documentation of her journey through self-discovery, sexuality and identity shines through on albums Reservoir and Our Two Skins, the latter of which was recognised with an AIR Award and nominated for an ARIA and two J Awards.
This project has been proudly assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia.
Gordi – Like Plasticine
Out now via Mushroom Music
LISTEN / PURCHASE1. GD (Goddamn)
2. Alien Cowboy
3. Cutting Room Floor
4. Peripheral Lover
5. Lunch At Dune (feat. SOAK)
6. Settle
7. Diluted
8. Your Consolation Prize
9. PVC Divide (feat. Anaïs Mitchell)
10. Head Rush
11. Broke Scene
12. Automatic