Thurston Moore Speaks on Kim Gordon Split

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Sonic Youth has been on an indefinite hiatus since the fall of 2011, when news first broke that Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore had split up. (They were married in 1984.) Both have kept active musically since then—Gordon with her noise duo Body/Head and Moore with his band Chelsea Light Moving and solo releases.

Last year, Gordon told Elle about their split, revealing that it was due to an affair Moore had been carrying on for years. "It ended in a kind of normal way—midlife crisis, starstruck woman," Gordon said. "Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her. He was really like a lost soul."

Now, Moore has spoken about the split, in an interview with The Fly. He declined to elaborate directly on Gordon's comments, but told the UK magazine that he has been living in London with the woman Gordon subtly mentioned, art book editor Eva Prinz. â€œI’m in a really romantic place with Eva; we’ve kinda been a couple for close to six years," Moore said. "A lot of those years nobody was very aware of it except us. The cat’s been out of the bag a while now." 

Prinz and Moore launched the Ecstatic Peace Library together in 2009. She appears in his latest video.

Moore elaborated:

I’ve had some life issues. 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. It’s really distressing. You have to work through it, it’s very personal and I don’t really talk about it so much. It’s just something I work through in my own world.

I’m involved in a really sweet relationship and it really does make me happy, it truly does. But 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. There have been some fall-outs, but that’s to be expected. It’s pretty heavy.

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