Body/Dilloway/ Head

★★★ Body/Dilloway/Head THREE LOBED. DL/LP

Kim Gordon’s improv project, now expanded to a trio.

According to Kim Gordon’s autobiography, 2015’s Girl In A Band, it was she who brought the conceptual art and jazz/improvisation to Sonic Youth, and, aside from

No Home Record, her prepandemic solo synth-pop outing, she has deployed her time since SY’s dissolution working at the ‘free’ end of music, chiefly alongside Bill Nace in two-guitar Body/Head. Here, that duality acquires a third pole, as Wolf Eyes’ Aaron Dilloway joins up, and immediately makes his presence felt on the side one-filling piece Body/Erase, whose opening six minutes resemble an accidental recording made inside an overcoat pocket, before mediated snatches of feedback further hint towards this maverick tape manipulator’s dark art. On the flip, Goin’ Down weaves a subtly morphing web of cyclical hypnosis, while 13-minute Secret Cuts collages assorted noise loops, linked by a two-note drone ‘chorus’. Is it music? Is it Art? No, it’s Gordon returning to her roots, where such notions are perpetually, artfully challenged.