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KIMBRA
shares deeply introspective
new album
A RECKONING

OUT NOW VIA INERTIA / [PIAS]

+ Pens letter to
her future daughter
with new single
‘FOOLISH THINKING’
ft. RYAN LOTT of SON LUX

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Acclaim for KIMBRA

“A Reckoning is all about conflict and anger. It’s an intensely personal work that moves from ballads to songs that, at first listen, seem light-hearted but quietly pack a deep emotional heft… In writing this kind of music – that doesn’t shy away from her emotions, her fears, her experiences – Kimbra makes herself vulnerable. Unlike other creative fields there isn’t really anywhere to hide” Sydney Morning Herald

“[Kimbra’s] fourth album… is sonically more pared back than her previous work, with plenty of darker, more introspective tracks, such as the haunting lead single Save Me. Writing it was a salve.” the Guardian

“She remerges this year with a new sonic purview and five years’ worth of life experience poured into this next record (fittingly titled A Reckoning) Kimbra is producing some of her most engaging and biting material to date” Double J

“Kimbra: confident, self-actualized star and feminist pop warrior” Interview Magazine

“The pop anomaly has gone on to prove that she is more than just a feature, but an all-around powerhouse on her own terms” Office Magazine

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Today, two-time GRAMMY award-winning artist Kimbra releases her latest album, A Reckoning out now via Inertia / [PIAS]. Accompanying the release is the music video for ‘foolish thinking’. LISTEN HERE+ WATCH HERE.

A Reckoning is a reflective record exploring themes of vitality and aggression through channelling anger and protest, into forces for good. Kimbra seeks to highlight both the role of the Feminine and the archetype of a Mother in restoring balance amongst people, the planet and our internal reckoning with conflict. The album hints that our greatest tool toward peace, change and equality is the allowance of pain, and the transformation it creates. It’s the most sonically autonomous and confessionally raw she has ever been, finding influence in everything from movie soundtracks to electronic, R&B and industrial soundworlds.

The album was first imagined in 2018, during Kimbra’s tour with co-producer Ryan Lott of the band Son Lux, who scored A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, the album is highlighted today via focus track ‘foolish thinking’, perhaps the most intimate window into A Reckoning yet. Directed by Alex Cook, the music video is an intimate vignette into the experience of being a mother. The subject of the song is Kimbra’s future daughter, who is shown confronting the struggles of growing up and eventually has to face young motherhood herself. Kimbra has to accept that she cannot always protect her child, reflecting, “It’s not my place and no matter what I say, you’re gonna do what you want anyway.”

Of ‘foolish thinking’, Kimbra says, “I wrote this song at the piano in a matter of hours. It started as a letter to my future daughter but quickly partnered with melody. It felt as though I were channeling my future self; a Mother trying to protect her child from pain while understanding that they must experience adversity to grow. I was imagining the loss of control when you realize the most loving thing is to let go. Having Ryan sing the second verse added a beautiful dimension because he has the actual lived experience of being a father so could perform my words from a very personal place. I feel there’s a lot of expectation on mothers to have it all figured out before they pass on their blueprint to the next generation. I wanted to make a song that would ease that external pressure a little, because we will always be learning right alongside them.”

Director Alex Cook adds, “Hearing the track for the first time, there was such a rare sincerity and emotional depth in the song and lyrics. There is often an almost inseparable sense of wonder and pain in the experience of growing up. Sometimes it isn’t until years later that we begin to understand the full emotional complexity of a life event. We hoped to carry those feelings into the video as we follow a mother watching her young girl grow up through life stages until she has a child of her own. The mother’s light, her warmth, follows her daughter through scenes of her life, until she enters into her own phase of motherhood.”

Kimbra will celebrate the album release with her A Reckoning headlining tour throughout Europe, the UK and North America, with support from Tommy Raps. Stay tuned for Australian tour dates on the horizon.

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A Reckoning LP by Kimbra is out now via Inertia / [PIAS],
buy/stream it here

TRACKLIST

save me
replay!
gun
the way we are
new habit
GLT [feat ERICK THE ARCHITECT]
la type [feat TOMMY RAPS & PINK SIIFU]
foolish thinking [feat RYAN LOTT]
personal space
i don’t want to fight

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About KIMBRA

New Zealand-born pop star and two-time Grammy Award winning tour de force Kimbra is readying her fourth studio album, A Reckoning, produced in tandem with Son Lux’s Ryan Lott.

This is just the latest chapter in a series of Kimbra’s overall career success: the experimental pop performer’s 2011 debut, Vows, bowed at No. 14 on the Billboard Top 200 and was certified platinum in Australia and New Zealand. She received Best Female Artist two years in a row at the ARIA Music Awards and took home 5 New Zealand Tui Awards including Album of The Year in 2012. That same year, she exploded into the public consciousness with “Somebody That I Used To Know,” a duet with Gotye that earned her two Grammy Awards for “Record of the Year” and “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance,” as well as reaching No. 1 on global charts (across 18 countries) and selling more than 13 million copies.

Her 2014 sophomore record, The Golden Echo, highlighted her eclectic style with a diverse set of collaborations from Thundercat, Omar-Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta, Bilal, and John Legend. Likewise, her third LP, 2018’s Primal Heart, saw her touring with the likes of Beck, Odesza and David Byrne. Kimbra has performed on TV shows such as Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Last Call with Carson Daly, Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Seth Meyers, as well as performing at festivals such as Coachella, Austin City Limits and more.

Moving forward, Kimbra hopes listeners will find catharsis and connection on A Reckoning, whether they are contending with change in their own lives or processing shifts in the world around them.

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