Kim Gordon's second solo album takes a little getting used to - it's not ear-friendly banger after ear-friendly banger, for sure - but The Collective stands as evidence of an artist who remains full of fresh, challenging ideas, even in her 70s.
With hindsight, in my review for Buzz I may perhaps have overstated its distance from the music of the band for which she is most famous. As Jeff Terich has astutely pointed out in his own assessment of the record for Treble, there are indeed echoes of "early Sonic Youth noise nightmares like 'Flower' or 'Pacific Coast Highway'", albeit refracted through the brain and studio trickery of Gordon's producer/partner in crime Justin Raisen.
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