Gordi shares new single, "Cutting Room Floor"

Co-produced with Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Snail Mail, Jensen McRae), 'Cutting Room Floor' is about shedding relationships that served a past version of oneself. It was originally written at Phoenix Central Park in Sydney, where Gordi set up a makeshift studio, surrounded by a circle of instruments that she used to create a series of loops that she would then write to.

The finishing touches were added in the US mid-west, where Payten and Cook finessed many of the album’s final cuts. The two first met while collaborating as part of Justin Vernon’s Big Red Machine project.

“‘Cutting Room Floor’ is a song about growing pains, about the slow splintering that happens between people. I took the song to Durham in North Carolina to work on with my friend, Brad Cook. Matt McCaughan came over and played drums, and Brad and I filled in the rest,” Gordi explains. “It was one of those songs that seemed to expand to fit any idea, and it was a real joy to work on. Jared Frieder and I shot the video in a carpark in Dallas as the sun was setting in the middle of a sweltering heatwave. I ate a whole pack of Twizzlers when we finished in an effort to abate my delirium.”