Kim Gordon has announced a UK and European tour in support of her forthcoming solo album Play Me, due for release on 13 March via Matador Records. The announcement follows the release of Not Today, the lead single from Play Me, which continues Gordon’s post–Sonic Youth trajectory: clipped vocal delivery, insistent beats and a growing sense of melodic clarity.

Scheduled for April 2026, the eight-date run will see Gordon bring her taut, rhythm-led solo work to a series of festivals and venues across Europe. The tour opens on 11 April at Rewire Festival in The Hague, before moving to Variations Festival in Nantes on 12 April. A London headline show at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire follows on 14 April, with further performances in Brussels at Ancienne Belgique (15 April), Paris’s Le Trianon (17 April) and Berlin’s Huxleys Neue Welt (19 April). The tour concludes in Poland with dates at A2 in Wrocław on 20 April and Progresja in Warsaw on 21 April.

Described in a press release as her most “distilled and immediate” album to date, Play Me expands Gordon’s sonic vocabulary while retaining the motorik drive that has become central to her recent work. The album was produced by Justin Raisen, whose collaborators include Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira and Yves Tumor, and whose sensitivity to rhythm and texture aligns closely with Gordon’s instinctive working method.

“We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon said of the sessions. “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident. I always work off rhythms, and I knew I wanted it to be even more beat-oriented than the last one. Justin really gets my voice and my lyrics—he understands how I work, and that really came through on this record.”

Play Me follows Gordon’s 2019 solo debut No Home Record and her critically acclaimed 2024 album The Collective, which further cemented her post-band reinvention. That record was praised for its ability to balance experimental instincts with contemporary production while addressing themes of capitalism, power and gender with characteristic precision.