October 18, 2024 • 6 mins
Kiwi musical icon Kimbra is back with another album.
Idols & Vices (Vol. 1) is a collaborative album, featuring the likes of BANKS, Dawn Richard, DRAM, Skrillex, and Sahtyre, and while Kimbra doesn’t stray too far from her experimental pop sound, there is more R&B and hiphop influences in this work.
Music Reviewer Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the release.
“It grows on me day by day, this album.”
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Different A, This is Cool, the songs called Ride
(00:36):
or Die, It's Kimber featuring Tommy Raps and Kimber's new
album It's called Idols, and Vice's Volume one. The Style
Clifford is our music reviewer. She's been listening more than
a shelder.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I've been one of those obnoxious people who forgot her headphones.
Bolsho was walking this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh no, I've been.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Listening real loud and proud. I mean, the great thing
is you just put your phone in your sports bruh,
keep the sound up nice.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
A loud speak for yourself. Just to be clear, You're
not like there are certain places where it's more at
more than others. You're not like sitting on the beach
or something, are you.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well? I was walking along the beach and then I
came back up. I know, but at least now more.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
People have heard Kimbra and that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah yeah, but yeah, I was one of those people
you know, and that they look at you and they're like.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I would be judging you. I'd be judging you.
But I feel like you could just say, guys, I've
got to be on Saturday mornings in like ten minutes,
and I need to have listened to as much of
this album as many times as possible.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Exactly Idols and Advices, Volume one. This is She's still
staying with what you'd expect from Kimber, that kind of
experimental pop, but more of an R and B and
hip hops of influence in this album.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's the musically likes. And what
I like about that is that she then collaborates with
really great rap artists, huh. Not that they don't expect
that her voice could probably take her to some places,
but this is an album she has said herself that
she wanted to work with some friends, and so she's
pulled them in. When when Kimber does collaboration, what I
(02:06):
think is really great about them is she is very
good at making the other artists shine to what they're
really great at, right right, And in turn she shines
because of that too, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And I think that's what collaborations should be about. That
you take something from the artist that you love and
then you put it together and what it is that
(02:27):
you offer yeah, and so sheats of layering in this album,
electric pop sort of style going on. I feel like
for a lot of it. Her voice is actually quite
subtle through a lot of the album. Yeah, and that's
that surprised me, because she can really push and she
can go.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Totally can yeah, but so she's kind of peered back
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, and then she's put lots of layering in.
You know how, she's really good at doing those kind
of ad libris of things. I won't do it, I'll
embarrass myself.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well yeah, I mean you've done enough this morning to
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Let's be honest, strutting my stuff around. Yeah, I think
that she's been really clever that with the production of
the album where she can kind of hear something, she
could fill a space quite nicely with some of those
things she does with her voice and then added that
into the production and it's really cool. It is a
lot about the beats and things that fall and being
(03:23):
a bit of a vendor of genres too, which I
really love about her. Yeah, And I just I don't
know this horse Field is actually I think now that
I've listened a few times, I think is my favorite
on the album, there's a looping of vocals, and she
wanted to embrace that over stimulation that you get from
being online, how to put that into a musicality. And
(03:47):
I think she's actually, I think she's really as I mean,
you have to listen to sort of you know, understand
what it is I'm kind of going on about. And
the theme is really about empowering self protection, building a
force field around you, but again with that relentless kind
of bombardment, which is what the music does, right of
that stimulation of us constantly scrolling on our phones in
(04:10):
the digital world. So this album does actually speak a
lot to that. It's called Idols and Vices, so that
praise and glory we give to celebs and influences, and
some of it really crosses the line sometimes and again
she's sometimes done that, and the lyrics that she's delivered
there and sometimes you'll find it in the musicality. I
(04:33):
was so fascinating concepts.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I was so I was so excited when I saw
she was collaborating, collaborating with Banks. Banks is one of
those artists who this happens extremely rarely in my life,
but I felt like I got on the Banks buzz
really early, like before Banks was cool, and then Banks
kind of grew like blew up and kind of became cool.
And I could be, you know, really ostentatious and be like, oh,
(04:55):
are you only just listening to Banks now?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So yeah, And of course it's like just one of
Kimber's friends, right, someone that she knows. Yeah, there's some
really great collaborations like that, and I think they really
add something. But again, I think it's her cleverness and
being able to know what it is that they can
add to what she wants to tell. And I think
that's what makes a really good collaboration. And it's nice
(05:18):
just to you can just listen to it, but then
you can really sink into more of that, and I
think that's what Kimber's fans kind of tend to do.
And especially when you've got someone like Banks, Scrill Exes
and there Tommy Raps, like some really interesting people that
sort of take some of these songs somewhere else, you know,
and it grows on me day by day, this album.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So probably growing on all your neighbors on the beach
this morning as well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The mainstream bus and embrace some Timber because she only
gets more and more clever in what she does. And
I don't know that she's out to go, oh look,
I'm so clever. No, I think it's just she just
legitimately is Yeah, okay and very cool.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, Idols and Vices.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What'd you give? It's a ten?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh my goodness, fantastic. Oh great, okay, we'll look. I'm
looking forward to playing a little bit more in a
couple of minutes time. Thank you, Estelle, pleasure. That's so good.
Tune out of ten A. Yeah, Idols and Vices is
the name. Volume one is the name of the album.
Right now is eight to twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Different A, This is Cool, the songs called Ride
(00:36):
or Die, It's Kimber featuring Tommy Raps and Kimber's new
album It's called Idols, and Vice's Volume one. The Style
Clifford is our music reviewer. She's been listening more than
a shelder.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I've been one of those obnoxious people who forgot her headphones.
Bolsho was walking this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh no, I've been.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Listening real loud and proud. I mean, the great thing
is you just put your phone in your sports bruh,
keep the sound up nice.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
A loud speak for yourself. Just to be clear, You're
not like there are certain places where it's more at
more than others. You're not like sitting on the beach
or something, are you.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well? I was walking along the beach and then I
came back up. I know, but at least now more.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
People have heard Kimbra and that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah yeah, but yeah, I was one of those people
you know, and that they look at you and they're like.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I would be judging you. I'd be judging you.
But I feel like you could just say, guys, I've
got to be on Saturday mornings in like ten minutes,
and I need to have listened to as much of
this album as many times as possible.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Exactly Idols and Advices, Volume one. This is She's still
staying with what you'd expect from Kimber, that kind of
experimental pop, but more of an R and B and
hip hops of influence in this album.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's the musically likes. And what
I like about that is that she then collaborates with
really great rap artists, huh. Not that they don't expect
that her voice could probably take her to some places,
but this is an album she has said herself that
she wanted to work with some friends, and so she's
pulled them in. When when Kimber does collaboration, what I
(02:06):
think is really great about them is she is very
good at making the other artists shine to what they're
really great at, right right, And in turn she shines
because of that too, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And I think that's what collaborations should be about. That
you take something from the artist that you love and
then you put it together and what it is that
(02:27):
you offer yeah, and so sheats of layering in this album,
electric pop sort of style going on. I feel like
for a lot of it. Her voice is actually quite
subtle through a lot of the album. Yeah, and that's
that surprised me, because she can really push and she
can go.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Totally can yeah, but so she's kind of peered back
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, and then she's put lots of layering in.
You know how, she's really good at doing those kind
of ad libris of things. I won't do it, I'll
embarrass myself.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well yeah, I mean you've done enough this morning to
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Let's be honest, strutting my stuff around. Yeah, I think
that she's been really clever that with the production of
the album where she can kind of hear something, she
could fill a space quite nicely with some of those
things she does with her voice and then added that
into the production and it's really cool. It is a
lot about the beats and things that fall and being
(03:23):
a bit of a vendor of genres too, which I
really love about her. Yeah, And I just I don't
know this horse Field is actually I think now that
I've listened a few times, I think is my favorite
on the album, there's a looping of vocals, and she
wanted to embrace that over stimulation that you get from
being online, how to put that into a musicality. And
(03:47):
I think she's actually, I think she's really as I mean,
you have to listen to sort of you know, understand
what it is I'm kind of going on about. And
the theme is really about empowering self protection, building a
force field around you, but again with that relentless kind
of bombardment, which is what the music does, right of
that stimulation of us constantly scrolling on our phones in
(04:10):
the digital world. So this album does actually speak a
lot to that. It's called Idols and Vices, so that
praise and glory we give to celebs and influences, and
some of it really crosses the line sometimes and again
she's sometimes done that, and the lyrics that she's delivered
there and sometimes you'll find it in the musicality. I
(04:33):
was so fascinating concepts.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I was so I was so excited when I saw
she was collaborating, collaborating with Banks. Banks is one of
those artists who this happens extremely rarely in my life,
but I felt like I got on the Banks buzz
really early, like before Banks was cool, and then Banks
kind of grew like blew up and kind of became cool.
And I could be, you know, really ostentatious and be like, oh,
(04:55):
are you only just listening to Banks now?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So yeah, And of course it's like just one of
Kimber's friends, right, someone that she knows. Yeah, there's some
really great collaborations like that, and I think they really
add something. But again, I think it's her cleverness and
being able to know what it is that they can
add to what she wants to tell. And I think
that's what makes a really good collaboration. And it's nice
(05:18):
just to you can just listen to it, but then
you can really sink into more of that, and I
think that's what Kimber's fans kind of tend to do.
And especially when you've got someone like Banks, Scrill Exes
and there Tommy Raps, like some really interesting people that
sort of take some of these songs somewhere else, you know,
and it grows on me day by day, this album.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So probably growing on all your neighbors on the beach
this morning as well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The mainstream bus and embrace some Timber because she only
gets more and more clever in what she does. And
I don't know that she's out to go, oh look,
I'm so clever. No, I think it's just she just
legitimately is Yeah, okay and very cool.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, Idols and Vices.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What'd you give? It's a ten?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh my goodness, fantastic. Oh great, okay, we'll look. I'm
looking forward to playing a little bit more in a
couple of minutes time. Thank you, Estelle, pleasure. That's so good.
Tune out of ten A. Yeah, Idols and Vices is
the name. Volume one is the name of the album.
Right now is eight to twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks EDB from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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