I saw you just today
I miss you, my sugar ray
I wanna pull your hair
While all the cool kids stare
Two decades deep in underground electronics, Voytek Korab has traded airport lounges and DJ booths for the blunt force of a band. After co-founding My Favorite Robot and living the itinerant rhythm of global club culture, he now reappears in Montreal with Modern Friend, a duo formed alongside Kosta Megalos of Flowers and Sea Creatures. The aim is simple: songs with skin in the game.
Their sassy new single, Gordon, follows Someone’s Gotta Save Us with a grin and a raised eyebrow. Written as an ode to Kim Gordon, it pulls energy from Sonic Youth’s Goo period and filters it through drum machines and glass-edged synth lines. The track moves with a sly physicality, its structure tight yet teasing, bass and beat snapping into place while streaks of noise scrape across the surface.
Lyrically, it is breathless and brazen. Obsessive admiration tangles with bratty affection. Playground provocation sits beside art-punk longing. “I miss you, my sugar bear,” repeats like a dare, pet names piled high until devotion starts to tilt. Feedback and disco glare blur the boundaries between desire and indifference. Love becomes a taunt, a chant, a confession delivered with lipstick smudged at the corner of the mouth.
The result lands somewhere between electro-clash sleaze and post-punk abrasion. Clean electronic textures keep the body moving while shards of guitar noise cut through the gloss. The vocal performance leans toward Gordon’s cool cadence, half-spoken and half-sung, a studied homage that feels both affectionate and irreverent.
The video extends the mood. Directed by Montreal native Gavin Morais and filmed at the city’s after-hours haunt The Cave, it places the band in the periphery. Centre stage belongs to MSTR SSTR, whose choreography and lip-sync turn the song into a sly performance of devotion. Limbs slice through smoke and strobe; gestures sharpen the track’s wink and bite. Modern Friend step back, letting the fantasy play out in full view.
Watch below:
For Korab, this shift from DJ decks to duet feels like a return to essentials. The club remains in the bloodstream, but here it serves a different purpose. Gordon is fan mail written in eyeliner and feedback, a love letter with its teeth showing.
Listen to Gordon below and order the single here.
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