Thurston Moore has spoken publicly about the end of his marriage with Kim Gordon. “It’s pretty heavy,” he admitted, before describing his “really sweet relationship” with new partner Eva Prinz.
“In your 40s and 50s, things can change in ways that upset the order of things that have been established over 25 years-plus of marriage,” Moore explained in an interview with The Fly. He and Gordon were married in 1984, several years into their work as Sonic Youth. They announced their split in 2011.
“I’ll always have that experience of sadness that a separation brings, especially one that was as important, not just to me but everybody around us,” Moore said. He conceded that “there have been some fall-outs”. Sonic Youth are currently on hiatus, but he and Gordon seem to be on level terms. “We don’t have stipulations with each other about who we talk to or what we say, we’re our own bosses,” he said.
Gordon was the first person to discuss the split, claiming to Elle magazine that Moore was “carrying on [a] double life” during the marriage. “Midlife crisis, starstruck woman,” she said.
Moore lives with Prinz, a book editor, in London. “We’ve kinda been a couple for close to six years,” he revealed to The Fly. “A lot of those years nobody was very aware of it except us.”
He released an album with his new band, Chelsea Light Moving, last year and is currently working on a solo album inspired by the “fun dangerous, liberation of the idea of noise as complete rock’n’roll”. He added that musically, “I can do whatever I want.”
Gordon, who released a record with Body/Head last September, is writing a memoir to chronicle her life before Sonic Youth.
