"Kimberly Linn is what the internet is about - namely discovering beautiful natural brilliant talent at the dawn of its inception, from her bedroom recording studio to your ears, with the intimacy of a new lover’s whisper, with no time or space in between for AOR guys to get involved and compromise the raw directness, the lush immediate poignancy-- of her work. This is just a 21-year old California girl in her bedroom, at dawn, when everyone else is asleep, making slow, hushed dream pop/slowcore ballads all her own. You can hear the crickets in the background. It’s hushed, gorgeous and perfect, a snapshot of innocence in the process of being slowly lost. “I know a lot of my songs are a tad depressing,†she said in a recent interview, “but I like music that breaks your heart. I like music that is kind of haunting.†Kind of haunting... what an understatement! This is music to haunt you into the grave and out the other side, into the sun of a new day after the chill of dawn has passed.“I can’t stop the clock from ticking / they always pass me by,†she sings in “Monster,†over a single echoing guitar note- creating a whole melody with just her brilliantly layered vocals. “It’s safer with me here,†she adds, repeating the line as if to convince both you and herself that no monsters can get you as long as you’re together. The follow-up track is a major stand-out, “Song for Lolita,†wherein she sings: “I walk, in a maze / live life in a daze / live life in a haze / like Dolores Haze†over a simple cycling guitar arpeggio. She suffuses the song with a feeling of inescapable maturity gathering force around the edges of a girl’s slowly drowning childhood; Nabokov would surely approve.This is the music of an artist rooted on the planet - in the moment - aching in the here and now with the intimacy of a secret midnight prayer - rosaries, broken hearts, and all the other magic heat sources that melt us down so we can shape ourselves anew. Linn’s is the rare voice which can be humble as a monk and as sweetly sexy as a fresh-blooming rose; that she mixed this album herself at home on pro tools reveals an amazing prodigy at vocal layering. Again this is the beautiful noise that can result when opportunity is seized, to do it all yourself. Record songs, put them up on the web, and don’t wait for some older guy to come along and tell you that you how you need to sound to be a hit. She’s a DIY inspiration and these songs are semi-polished gems, just waiting to be taken home, kept from harm, and loved." -Erich Kuersten of The Acidemic Journal of Film and Media
"...As soon as the first song started I was under charm. It’s not just her voice, somewhere between Azure Ray, Stina Nordenstam or Jen Wood, it is mainly the music that broke my heart and made me feel disorientated.It’s just her electric guitar played on two or three tracks, without distortion, just some reverb I presume that reminds me of songs by S or The Secret Stars, minimalism, slowness and melancholy. Everything is said and the sadcore tag can be added.All these seven songs don’t have the same level of subtlety, but there are no musical weaknesses. Her way to play guitar is always close to intimate, cold and shivering perfection, the sublime tension of monotony. Beautiful structures, wonderful minimal instrumentation, well written lyrics and a sensual voice, Kimberly, 20 years old, from Los Angeles, has got everything that is needed to release a deeply moving debut ep..." -DERIVES
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