There seems to be a veil of COVID amnesia around the world. Did it really happen or are the horrors just history to be forgotten?
Australian Sophie Payten attempts to make sense of what she faced as a frontline doctor during the pandemic on her third album as Gordi, in the process giving us what we need – a warm hug filled with empathy and hope.
With twitchy synths, rootsy loops and delicate strummed guitar or plinky piano her brand of folktronica deals with difficult topics but always makes you feel uplifted. Take ‘PVC Divide’ (ft. Anaïs Mitchell) which lays bare the horror of her COVID as she sings: ‘She said, did you watch them die on FaceTime?’
But the album succeeds so well because rather…

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