Gordi joins forces with Anaïs Mitchell on new track, "PVC Divide"

Written, recorded and produced by Gordi, and featuring vocals of Anaïs Mitchell, "PVC Divide" offers a snapshot of Gordi's experiences working in hospitals during the COVID pandemic. Gordi first met Anaïs Mitchell – the Vermont-based, Tony and Grammy award-winning creator of Broadway musical, Hadestown – a few years ago, while singing backing vocals together for Bon Iver on a Jimmy Fallon performance.

“I spent the pandemic working as a doctor. These tiny planes at empty airports would take us to remote towns, to restaff hospitals that had been hit by covid. From the airport to a serviced apartment to the emergency room and so on and so forth. Rinse and repeat. I observed the grief of others until eventually it felt like my own,” Gordi explains.

“The lyrics are made up of stories I read, conversations I had, and feelings I tried to contain. They finally spilled over the day I wrote this - I was in the middle of a room called Phoenix Central Park in Sydney and I started playing this guitar line and the words came quickly. I made a drum loop and let it echo around the space, then I started recording and sat down at the piano and just played. It was all captured that day. This song is hard for me to listen to sometimes, but it holds a special place.”