Kimbra makes music indicative of having good and interesting taste. I also think that she has a really good ear for collaborators. (I suspect these are related.)
Kimbra makes music that, to me, sounds like “the future of the present”. It sounds exciting and it sounds immaculate, but there’s always a kernel of the contemporary in there. I think she’s experimental but I don’t think she’s avant-garde (qualitatively neutral observation). She still makes music that, when you listen to it year(s) later, it still manages to transport you back to that time and place.
Foolish Thinking (track 8) is I think a pretty incredible subversion of what has come before. It takes her confidence and… More