Kimbra – review

Union Chapel, London"Call the Samaritans!" yelps New Zealand's Kimbra Lee Johnson, jolting, convulsing and throwing coin-operated Pierrot poses around the Union Chapel stage in a pink puffball mini-dress, like a demonically possessed princess doll come to life. She may be suffering from a new internet-age affliction: Unknown Superstar Syndrome. Kimbra spent five weeks at No 1 as the annoyed new girlfriend on Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know, racking up 321m YouTube views, making her as big a...

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