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Headline : On a New Album Born Out of Isolation, Kimbra Is Reckoning With Herself

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In 2011, Kimbra landed the feature placement of a lifetime: Gotye was looking for the right female partner to appear alongside him on a forthcoming single. After being connected with the singer-songwriter by her producer, she met up with Gotye at her home in Melbourne to record just a few takes of a floaty, mid-tempo, ballad. โ€œSomebody That I Used to Knowโ€ debuted that July on Gotyeโ€™s Making Mirrors LP, and would go on to secure the duo Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Today, it has over 2 billion views on YouTube and is one of the most recognizable songs of the past decade.

For Kimbra โ€“ who performs under her given name โ€“ the trackโ€™s unexpected success acted as a platform from which she could launch her solo career and a primer in the sheer happenstance of โ€œmaking it.โ€ What she thought was a niche art-pop ballad resonated with a global audience and put her in rooms with an accomplished fleet of the industryโ€™s finest managers, producers and sound engineers.

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