Our Two Skins Vinyl LP

Losing someone close to you creates an almost phantom limb-like effect. Often, it feels like theyre a phone call away. But that instant between when you reach for the phone and when your brain delivers the new reality to you is a strange, momentary eternity. Its both an uncompromising void and maybe as close as youll ever come to communing with that loved one again. On her new song Sandwiches, Gordi harnesses all the sadness and glory of this feeling into a soaring, post-new wave anthem. One of the first true Gordi guitar songs, it shimmers with the lush-yet-fragile momentum of The Cranberries classic Dreams. Gordi wrote Sandwiches as a tribute to the matriarch of her family. Her late grandmother was, in Gordis words, a great feeder of people. So when she fell ill, Gordi and her mother took it upon themselves to nourish the visitors gathered around her hospital bed. As they passed around sandwiches, someone called out that she was gone. The gravity of the moment was poignant for its softness and mundanity. Gordi approaches the totality of a loved ones life as measured in the small memories that stay with us. She sings, When I think of you a movie-reel of moments plays / Well be in the car or after mass on Saturdays / Youll be walking down the driveway, youll be in your chair / Youll say See you round or Say your Three / And now youre everywhere. Gordi called on long-time collaborators and Bon Iver production duo Chris Messina and Zach Hanson to make Sandwiches at her family home in Canowindra, Australia an old cottage littered with some of Sophies favorite pieces of musical arsenal combined with some flown in from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The tiny farm town where her family has lived for over a century, Canowindra, and the heart of the matriarch, is embedded in this song. Her whole life was in Canowindrawe made it in a house thats a hundred meters from her house.