While the lyrics mirror the troubled world that developed prior to the release of the album, there is a distinct double entendre in songs like the feathery ballad 'Version of Me', implying Kimbra's rediscovery of herself as an artist. If Vows was an idiosyncratic record, everything about Primal Heart - from the darker, more driving instrumentals to the determined, aspiring lyrics and down to its amalgam album cover - invokes the theme of Kimbra wanting to take all of her quirky sounds and make them into one unique characteristic. Rather, Primal Heart is a soundtrack to Kimbra's new artistic awakening, a statement that yearns to make the best out of her influences and establish the woman herself as a force to be reckoned with.

While the spiritual blow Kimbra suffered due to some of her most significant influences passing is apparent on here, it is also clear that she isn't about to mope or rest on her laurels. The world of music was radically shaped anew with great losses, and great achievements, on no uncertain terms demonstrating that while influence may live forever, the people themselves do not. The period between The Golden Echo and Primal Heart was certainly a tumultuous time to be a Kimbra, or anybody aware of their surroundings for that matter. Review Summary: The sounds of people you used to know become the sounds of somebody you ought to know.

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