OUR TWO SKINS (LIMITED)

Losing someone close to you creates an almost phantom limb-like effect. Often it feels like they re 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. It s both an uncompromising void and maybe as close as you ll 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 Gordi s 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 it s softness and mundanity. Gordi approaches the totality of a loved one s life as measured in the small memories that stay with us. She sings When I think of you a movie-reel of moments plays / We ll be in the car or after mass on Saturdays / You ll be walking down the driveway you ll be in your chair / You ll say See you round or Say your Three / And now you re 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 Sophie s 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 Canowindra we made it in a house that s a hundred meters from her house.