Gordi announces third album, Like Plasticine, and shares new single 'Peripheral Lover'

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Gordi announces third album, Like Plasticine, and shares new single ‘Peripheral Lover’

Australian indie-pop singer, songwriter and producer Gordi – aka Sophie Payten – shares her new song ‘Peripheral Lover’ alongside news of her third solo album Like Plasticine, due out in May.

Speaking about the new single, Gordi says: “Summer in Nashville a few years ago, it was damn hot. I was thinking about the beginnings of queer relationships – I’m talking real early, like so early that at least one person is still in the closet. Accepting the available love instead of it orbiting around you. There comes a breaking point, a demand, a pleading for honesty – and the relationship either explodes into the open, or melts from the periphery away into nothing. From these thoughts, ‘Peripheral Lover’ was born.

“It’s a simple song with a simple message, and so I wrote KISS (keep it simple, stupid) on a post-it note and stuck it on my desk in Melbourne, while I layered up guitars and synths and drums. Me at my most ‘pop’ – terrifying and ludicrously fun.”

The video, directed by Jared Frieder, embraces the song’s mantra to embrace all kinds of love, with Gordi perching herself in a kissing booth around the streets of Dallas, Texas.

On the video, Gordi adds: “A couple years ago, Troye Sivan texted me asking if I would help him write a song for a movie. We wrote ‘Wait’ for the film ‘Three Months’, which was written and directed by the talented Jared Frieder, and he popped into my head when I was wondering how to bring ‘Peripheral Lover’ to life with visuals.

“We flew to Dallas and shot on a 45-degree (celsius) day, as I dragged a kissing booth around the city. We’d put a call out to any non-male queer people in Dallas who were up for coming to the shoot and making out with a total stranger – unsurprisingly, an abundance of people showed up (and all went for drinks together after, bursting my heart open).”

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