Kimbra Expands Her Color Palette on 'The Golden Echo' — elle.com

Kimbra has been writing music since she was eight years old. And sure, the now-24-year-old had a sizable following in her native Australia for a while there. But in 2012, when she hopped on "Somebody That I Used To Know" with her friend and fellow countryman Gotye, it’s safe to say lot more people began perking up their ears to her soothing voice. “There’s a healthy kind of pressure that comes with a successful song like that,” the singer says of releasing The Golden Echo, her first album since her guest spot on Gotye’s smash single. She wasn’t alone in her efforts: Kimbra recruited musician friends from John Legend to Muse’s Matt Bellamy and Omar Rodriguez of The Mars Volta to help her create the blissful, textural genre-collage that is her latest LP, due on August 19. “I wanted to continue to push things into a more panoramic place,” Kimbra said when she picked up ELLE.com’s call on a recent L.A. afternoon. “That’s the stuff that excites me.”

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