Today, Gordi returned with the new single "Broke Scene," which was co-produced with Ethan Gruska and mixed by Jon Low. The track came streaming out of her after taking a break amidst a week-long writing residency in Sydney last year. After walking around a yum cha feast in Chinatown (a traditional Cantonese brunch of tea and dim sum), she nestled around the legs of a piano to nap and woke up inspired.
“I had an afternoon of writing ahead of me, which was giving me ‘the Sunday feeling,’" Gordi elaborated. "I was in such a post lunch haze when I got back to the piano, that I thought I’d just lie down and close my eyes for a second. I woke up an hour later in a cold yum cha sweat. Almost robotically I picked up a guitar and started playing this riff, as if I’d been dreaming about it. I looped a drum part over the top that my friend Chris Messina had sent me. By the time the sun set, I had written ‘Broke Scene’.”
She also explained the track's title: “I called it ‘Broke Scene’ because I was listening to Broken Social Scene that morning. I always thought I’d change the title but as the song unfolded it kind of painted this deteriorating story—a broken scene. I quickly recorded the guitar riff and some piano, added the drum machine and put the whole thing on loop while the words and melody arrived.”
The single comes with a video directed by James Dryden—watch it below.
