In Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon provided the caustic counterpoint to Thurston Moore's deadpan cool, infusing the band's discordant indie rock with bratty glam attitude (“Kool Thing”) and creepy narration (“Shadow of a Doubt”). Since that band dissolved in 2011, she's explored the extremes of their art-punk dialectic, whether indulging in abstract noise-sculpting as one half of Body/Head or cruising atop the industrialized sludge-funk of 2016 solo single “Murder Out.” But Gordon is more playful than her avant-guardian rep suggests: As her winsome cameo on Stephen Malkmus' “Refute” proves, she's totally game for a cheeky country-rock duet.