Kimbra is back! The New Zealand pop star has announced her forthcoming new album, sharing the news alongside a music video for lead single "Save Me."
Though an official release date has yet to be set, A Reckoning is due to arrive sometime in 2023 via Inertia. It was co-produced by the singer-songwriter and Ryan Lott of Son Lux — who also recently scored Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan's Everything Everywhere All at Once, which featured Mitski and David Byrne joining forces.
The follow-up to Kimbra's third studio LP, 2018's Primal Heart, the new release is described in press notes as "a reflective record capturing the macro reckonings that impact our world around environment, race, feminism, health and patriarchy," as well as the artist's own micro-scale internal reckonings. It's likewise poised to be influenced by movie soundtracks and the electronic and industrial scenes in equal measure, showing Kimbra at her "most sonically autonomous and confessionally raw."
First single "Save Me" was apparently inspired by a singular moment, and attempts to find the balance between both the chaos and the calm present within herself. Likewise, the video was shot in otherworldly Icelandic landscapes complete with floating rocks. Kimbra wrestles with her insecurities over menacingly twisted piano lines, only finding hope in the gospel-inspired uplift of the chorus — a plea to be saved from herself.
Watch the Yvan Fabing-directed video for "Save Me" below.
Though an official release date has yet to be set, A Reckoning is due to arrive sometime in 2023 via Inertia. It was co-produced by the singer-songwriter and Ryan Lott of Son Lux — who also recently scored Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan's Everything Everywhere All at Once, which featured Mitski and David Byrne joining forces.
The follow-up to Kimbra's third studio LP, 2018's Primal Heart, the new release is described in press notes as "a reflective record capturing the macro reckonings that impact our world around environment, race, feminism, health and patriarchy," as well as the artist's own micro-scale internal reckonings. It's likewise poised to be influenced by movie soundtracks and the electronic and industrial scenes in equal measure, showing Kimbra at her "most sonically autonomous and confessionally raw."
First single "Save Me" was apparently inspired by a singular moment, and attempts to find the balance between both the chaos and the calm present within herself. Likewise, the video was shot in otherworldly Icelandic landscapes complete with floating rocks. Kimbra wrestles with her insecurities over menacingly twisted piano lines, only finding hope in the gospel-inspired uplift of the chorus — a plea to be saved from herself.
Watch the Yvan Fabing-directed video for "Save Me" below.
