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The duo of former
Sonic Youth bassist/vocalist
Kim Gordon and respected guitarist
Bill Nace,
Body/Head uncovers new possibilities within experimental music. The pair's largely improvised, free-flowing guitar drones and feedback expanded on
Gordon's no wave roots and brought her prowess as an intuitive, emotive guitarist to the fore on releases including 2013's cathartic Coming Apart and 2018's gentler but still intense
The Switch. The project's horizons further expanded with the inclusion of
Aaron Dilloway's electronic manipulations on 2021's Body/Dilloway/Head.
Gordon and
Nace -- who has also played with
Chris Corsano as Vampire Belt, as well as with Jessica Rylan,
Paul Flaherty, and
Thurston Moore -- debuted
Body/Head in 2011 with Fractured Orgasm, a limited-edition cassette released by Ecstatic Peace. The following year,
Body/Head issued a pair of recordings on the Belgian label Ultra Eczema, the single The Eyes, the Mouth/Night of the Ocean and a cover of the standard "Fever" for a compilation. Glare Luring Yo, a live album documenting a show with the like-minded Gate (a project of
the Dead C's Michael Morley) also arrived that year on Feeding Tube. Recorded at Sonelab with producer
Justin Pizzoferrato, the band's full-length debut, September 2013's Coming Apart, was a double album that offered a slightly more polished version of
Body/Head's abstract approach. The following year,
Gordon and
Nace issued the 7" The Show Is Over/The Canyon.
They returned in November 2016 with
No Waves, a collection of excerpts from their set at the 2014 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Body/Head reunited with
Pizzoferrato at Sonelab to make July 2018's subtle yet immersive song cycle
The Switch.
Gordon and
Nace teamed up with revered noise artist
Aaron Dilloway on November 2021's Body/Dilloway/Head, a hypnotic mesh of drones and edits that was released by Three Lobed Recordings as part of the label's 20th Anniversary series. ~ Heather Phares