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Gordi (Australia) at Meteor

Sunday, 27 September 2026 at 19:00 GMT-4

Meteor

138 University Ave W, Windsor, Ontario, N9A 5N9, Canada

Performing: Gracie and Rachel, Gordi

Gordi (Australia) at Meteor Sept 27th / $20 advanced / $25 door / 7pm doors  *Support from Gracie and Rachel  For fans of: Grimes, Flowerface, Zola Jesus  “Being surrounded by death made me think about how beautiful life is.” As a final-year medical student, Sophie Payten (aka Gordi) learned to certify death. Beyond just what we see in the movies – checking for a pulse, hearing the monotone of a flatline, announcing the time – the process involves observing a person who's no longer responding. As she looked at their still, waxy skin, Payten says “It made me think of plasticine - that soft, malleable substance, that we can shape and mould in our hands, until we leave it to set in place. I thought about all the ways we are like plasticine in life - how forces we can’t control, contort us into shapes, stretch us thin, and test our resilience. But sometimes, heart-wrenching change can be a thing of beauty.” These moments of transition - the anguish and the ecstasy of change - are captured on her new album, ‘Like Plasticine’, which opens with the gritty, entirely iPhone-recorded GD (Goddamn), a reminder of the things we do to carry on and endure – Look around. Slow down. Call your mum. Over sparse, distorted synths, Payten sounds like she's trapped underwater or pressed against a window, looking in on the lives she is wondering how to step back into. Writing the album was a process of intense excavation. Payten took herself to Sydney for a pair of week-long residencies six months apart – first at Phoenix Central Park and the other at a church, both operated by arts patron Judith Nielson. "I think that whole first week I felt like an exposed nerve, because I was facing everything I'd been really actively not thinking about for a long time. I was like, alright, it's time. I'm ready for it to explode." Inside the vault, along with the tender, cerebral pop that's become a Gordi trademark, a surprising amount of joy sprang out. She'd written Peripheral Lover in Nashville a li

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