Kimbra: Vows – review

(Warner Brothers)Kimbra is the Kiwi singer who provided the female verse on Gotye's chart-topping Somebody That I Used to Know. That track was stealthily infectious, creating something unshakable from sparse musical elements, but not much here creeps up on you so engagingly. Instead, she overstates her proper pop star credentials with an underwhelming run through the requisite tricks; a jazzy, smoky-voiced turn on Good Intent, sassy self-affirmation on Posse, faint nods to Florence-style floridi...

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