Album Review: Kimbra - Vows

In the past year, Kimbra has been involved in two perfect pop moments. First, I watched - mesmerised - the video to ‘Settle Down’ on Juice TV, immediately Googled her and discovered that Kimbra Johnson was not from London, Stockholm or New York but … Hamilton. Cue the shame-faced Kiwi whose first thought was that something this good could only originate overseas … The second occurred when I saw her duet, ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, with Australian magpie, Gotye. Both songs have star quality: you stop what you are doing, listen and then scramble to hear them again … immediately.

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