Vows
Kimbra Johnson is young (22), kinda-sorta sexy (not hating the Mary Tyler Moore hairdo) and blessed with both a genre-hopping musical sensibility and a hair-raising voice that swoons and soars straight to your deepest pleasure zones. If you're a non-New Zealander, it's likely your first brush with Kimbra euphoria came from the singer's brief-yet-memorable cameo on Gotye's lush break-up jam "Somebody That I Used To Know," quite possibly the year's most inescapable pop sensation. But Kimbra's not exactly a newbie: Her solo debut album, 2011's Vows , was a goldmine in both Australia an...
Discover Vows by Kimbra released in 2011. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
The songs here are delicate traps that slink by on whispers of sex and menace, with big, cathartic moments sparingly sprinkled in.
Her star turn on Gotye's hit single has brought New Zealand songwriter Kimbra to prominence, and quite right, says <strong>Caroline Sullivan</strong>