Gordi
There are multiple artists with this name:
1. Gordi is a indie-pop singer/songwriter based in Sydney, Australia.
2. GORDI - ex-Yugoslavian rock / Heavy Metal band
Raised in the small, farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation. She left the rural life in her late-teens to pursue a medical education in Sydney alongside her musical career. Read Full BioThere are multiple artists with this name:
1. Gordi is a indie-pop singer/songwriter based in Sydney, Australia.
2. GORDI - ex-Yugoslavian rock / Heavy Metal band
Raised in the small, farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation. She left the rural life in her late-teens to pursue a medical education in Sydney alongside her musical career. The dichotomy of those environments — the pastoral and the modern — is surely a guiding influence in Gordi’s music. Earthy, wistful folk songs are cloaked in delicate-but- bold electronic production. And what an effortlessly flooring voice to carry it all, at once fractured and brimming with richness. These are songs you could hear bouncing through the alleyways of the city as much as you could hear them rolling across the fields. Fans in Payten’s native Australia have already been treated to a number of these magical musical moments courtesy of consistent rotation on triple j and FBi Radio, including nominations for a triple J J Award and 2 FBi SMAC Awards in 2015, on top of being named triple j Unearthed’s most played artist during 2015.
The single, "Can We Work It Out" has the big, worldly drums of those aforementioned Peter Gabriel classics and a towering, multi-layered vocal chorus that will instantaneously sear itself into your musical memory. The soft gallop and airy melody of EP opener “Nothing’s As It Seems” feels like the bittersweet sunset of a four-day weekend on the water. “So Here We Are”, a heartbreaking lo-fi piano and vocoder-led ballad. While the instrumentally lush “Wanting” submerges you in a joyous sonic landscape, a bold aesthetic for a tale of longing and reconciliation.
Moments in the EP may recall the early albums of Beth Orton, but more storming and redesigned for the stadiums, festivals and amphitheatres of the 21st Century. Staking that claim, Gordi is already sharing stages with contemporaries like Of Monsters And Men, Highasakite, Little May, Dustin Tebbutt and more. Clever Disguise was created with Melbourne producer Ben McCarthy with additional production by Alex Somers (Sigur Ros) and Francois Tetaz (Gotye). And if it’s merely an aperitif for what Gordi has coming up, we’re in for a magnificent show.
“An absolute work of splendour that will almost certainly make her a star"
- Stereogum (Artist to Watch; top songs of 2015)
“A song to score a daydream”
- Pigeons & Planes
“Breezy, wintry melancholy at its finest”
- The Guardian
“Our standards for indie-folk music this year have been set very high by artists like Vance Joy and Xavier Dunn, but here, we find that Gordi is still capable of surpassing our expectations with her lovely first offering, Nothing’s As It Seems”
- Hilly Dilly (Top 25 Australian songs 2014)
“What’s not to like about this”
- Stuart Murdoch, Belle & Sebastian
“Brand new label mate that is REALLY crushing music – G-O-R-D-I”
- Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
"Gordi's most lushly atmospheric and spaciously produced work to date"
- The Line of Best Fit
"As abrasive as it is gorgeous"
- All Song Considered, NPR Music
"The smooth, low timbre of her voice feels like that still time of the morning before anyone else is awake, watching blooms of ice to melt into the window"
- Yen Magazine
“What a beauty! Smart production, sublime songwriting”
- Dom Alessio, triple j
“It is without a doubt that Gordi is charismatic individual, easily able to hold a crowd in the palm of her hand”
- Semplesize
“A musical mystic pulled from the pages of some pastoral romance.”
- Music Feeds
1. Gordi is a indie-pop singer/songwriter based in Sydney, Australia.
2. GORDI - ex-Yugoslavian rock / Heavy Metal band
Raised in the small, farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation. She left the rural life in her late-teens to pursue a medical education in Sydney alongside her musical career. Read Full BioThere are multiple artists with this name:
1. Gordi is a indie-pop singer/songwriter based in Sydney, Australia.
2. GORDI - ex-Yugoslavian rock / Heavy Metal band
Raised in the small, farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation. She left the rural life in her late-teens to pursue a medical education in Sydney alongside her musical career. The dichotomy of those environments — the pastoral and the modern — is surely a guiding influence in Gordi’s music. Earthy, wistful folk songs are cloaked in delicate-but- bold electronic production. And what an effortlessly flooring voice to carry it all, at once fractured and brimming with richness. These are songs you could hear bouncing through the alleyways of the city as much as you could hear them rolling across the fields. Fans in Payten’s native Australia have already been treated to a number of these magical musical moments courtesy of consistent rotation on triple j and FBi Radio, including nominations for a triple J J Award and 2 FBi SMAC Awards in 2015, on top of being named triple j Unearthed’s most played artist during 2015.
The single, "Can We Work It Out" has the big, worldly drums of those aforementioned Peter Gabriel classics and a towering, multi-layered vocal chorus that will instantaneously sear itself into your musical memory. The soft gallop and airy melody of EP opener “Nothing’s As It Seems” feels like the bittersweet sunset of a four-day weekend on the water. “So Here We Are”, a heartbreaking lo-fi piano and vocoder-led ballad. While the instrumentally lush “Wanting” submerges you in a joyous sonic landscape, a bold aesthetic for a tale of longing and reconciliation.
Moments in the EP may recall the early albums of Beth Orton, but more storming and redesigned for the stadiums, festivals and amphitheatres of the 21st Century. Staking that claim, Gordi is already sharing stages with contemporaries like Of Monsters And Men, Highasakite, Little May, Dustin Tebbutt and more. Clever Disguise was created with Melbourne producer Ben McCarthy with additional production by Alex Somers (Sigur Ros) and Francois Tetaz (Gotye). And if it’s merely an aperitif for what Gordi has coming up, we’re in for a magnificent show.
“An absolute work of splendour that will almost certainly make her a star"
- Stereogum (Artist to Watch; top songs of 2015)
“A song to score a daydream”
- Pigeons & Planes
“Breezy, wintry melancholy at its finest”
- The Guardian
“Our standards for indie-folk music this year have been set very high by artists like Vance Joy and Xavier Dunn, but here, we find that Gordi is still capable of surpassing our expectations with her lovely first offering, Nothing’s As It Seems”
- Hilly Dilly (Top 25 Australian songs 2014)
“What’s not to like about this”
- Stuart Murdoch, Belle & Sebastian
“Brand new label mate that is REALLY crushing music – G-O-R-D-I”
- Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
"Gordi's most lushly atmospheric and spaciously produced work to date"
- The Line of Best Fit
"As abrasive as it is gorgeous"
- All Song Considered, NPR Music
"The smooth, low timbre of her voice feels like that still time of the morning before anyone else is awake, watching blooms of ice to melt into the window"
- Yen Magazine
“What a beauty! Smart production, sublime songwriting”
- Dom Alessio, triple j
“It is without a doubt that Gordi is charismatic individual, easily able to hold a crowd in the palm of her hand”
- Semplesize
“A musical mystic pulled from the pages of some pastoral romance.”
- Music Feeds
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Can We Work It Out
Gordi Lyrics
I'm tired of just hiding away
Wrestling my instincts to keep 'em at bay
'Cause forgetting you is like ignoring the weather
Or wanting you takes as long as forever
And I don't know how much longer I can keep it inside
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Go on and get out of my head
Or stay, tell me something instead
Tell me how we work this out
And what the struggle's about
You're asking me to give you all I have
Tell me how to change your mind
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Won't you just open your eyes?
And see that we are failing at our clever disguise
Can you pick a point that we can choose to rewind to
Or know there's better days ahead than behind you
'Cause I can't see anything ahead of me now
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Lyrics © WORDS & MUSIC A DIV OF BIG DEAL MUSIC LLC, MUSHROOM MUSIC PTY LTD
Written by: SOPHIE PAYTEN
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rhichickgirl90
I'm tired of just hiding away
Wrestling my instincts to keep 'em at bay
'Cause forgetting you is like ignoring the weather
Or wanting you takes as long as forever
And I don't know how much longer I can keep it inside
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Go on and get out of my head
Or stay, tell me something instead
Tell me how we work this out
And what the struggle's about
You're asking me to give you all I have
Tell me how to change your mind
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Won't you just open your eyes?
And see that we are failing at our clever disguise
Can you pick a point that we can choose to rewind to
Or know there's better days ahead than behind you
'Cause I can't see anything ahead of me now
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
IndieCurrent
Love it! Can't wait to hear more
EffingtonCouldBe
Stumbled across this - sweet tune! Love the video too.
Isaac Bobonis
How many feel The Bold Type S3E08 brought you to this song?
Satyam Mishra
Vampire Diaries
Clarice Savala
@Estevao Shangombe let's be friends
Clarice Savala
Have made quite a playlist from it, can we actually have a group,
Estevao Shangombe
Wow.Its bold type that brought me here lol
Dam Thao
Yes!!
Emer Tansey
I'm here because its f**king brilliant
Hongbang dynasty
not even a million views, that's when you know how f*ck up this generation's taste in music are these days.