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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | October 26th 18 |
Primal Heart is an arsty pop album driven by both real instruments and synth elements leaning toward the latter for most of the beats and backdrops. Kimbra as a vocalist is talented and powerful, brings a certain swagger and can pull of the poppy anthems (ex. Top of the World) and more emotional, introspective slow jams (ex. Right Direction, Version of Me). As others have noted, this album is front-loaded, a lot, with the first four tracks being the best on the album and all being really, really great. These tracks serve to show off Kimbra's singing skills and also contain the best music on the album in terms of beats and production. The tribal rhythms and Skrillex infusion in Top of the World is fantastic and Kimbra absolutely crushes the microphone in Everybody Knows. Beyond the first half things are always good and perhaps peak at Past Love (incredibly underrated) but Kimbra loses the creativity that is showed off in the first few tracks in terms of songwriting and beats. Kimbra will be one to watch for people that enjoy artsy synthpop with a wide range of influences and Primal Heart, despite not being a masterpiece, can be replayed a lot before it gets old.
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| 3.5 great | meenwolf131 | May 8th 18 |
expose her unique vocal and soundscape / blend complex layered quirky instrumental and r&b pop dynamic / twisted melody, subtle texture, smooth soulful flavor, and interesting details to make every track unique
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| 3.0 good | Risodo | April 24th 18 |
Not much to speak about in regards to "Primal Heart". I'm not a fan of the style and it's really hard for me to listen to an entire record that includes all the elements of Pop. That said, i add that this word is ok and that since i don't have much to support my arguments, i give this Kimbra record an average rating so as not to contradict me.
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| 2.5 average | El Olam | November 14th 23 |
| 3.0 good | JohIV | May 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | May 13th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Gueero | September 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | grello | July 21st 19 |
| 2.5 average | fog CONTRIBUTOR | June 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | chayka | February 23rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Coast | January 19th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Lalka | December 28th 18 |
| 3.5 great | DANcore | December 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Grzka | December 6th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Tom | November 15th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greengo | October 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sonorous | September 5th 18 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | June 21st 18 |
| 3.0 good | Pon EMERITUS | May 26th 18 |
| 2.5 average | YayoG1 | May 15th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | May 2nd 18 |
| 2.0 poor | tyler | April 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Creed | April 26th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Juanpa | April 22nd 18 |
| 5.0 classic | zxlkho | April 22nd 18 |
| 3.5 great | Piglet | April 22nd 18 |
| 2.5 average | Veldin | April 21st 18 |
| 2.5 average | bharry | April 20th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Dmax28 | April 20th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Kruppe | April 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | greg84 EMERITUS | April 20th 18 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | April 20th 18 |
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