Gordi announces new album Like Plasticine

Gordi has announced the release of her third album Like Plasticine, out May 30.

The artist also dropped her third single off the project, ‘Peripheral Lover,’ accompanied by a music video directed by Jared Frieder. The song addresses the experience of dating someone closeted while in a queer relationship.

“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,” Gordi said.

Like Plasticine follows the last few years of the artist’s life, from working as a doctor during the pandemic to coming out.

“Being surrounded by death made me think about how beautiful life is,” she said. “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.”

Gordi has collaborated with artists like Troye Sivan, Bon Iver, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. She also worked with Irish musician SOAK in October of 2024, with their single 'Lunch At Dune.' Her music was featured in Oscar-nominated film The Mitchells vs the Machines in addition to Three Months.

“A couple years ago, my friend Troye Sivan had 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. Jared popped into my head when I was wondering how to bring ‘Peripheral Lover’ to life with visuals, so I asked would he shoot the music video,” she said.

In the music video, Gordi lugs a kissing boot around the streets of Dallas.

“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),” she said.

Watch the music video to Gordi’s new single ‘Peripheral Lover’ below: