“Bury It There” is the new single from Kimberly Anne, available digitally now and impacting October 5th on Polydor. Written by Kimberly Anne and produced by Charlie Hugall (Florence & The Machine, Ed Sheeran, Lucy Rose) and Mark Crew (Bastille), the subtly anthemic “Bury It There” is built on an insistent guitar riff and staccato percussion, with Kimberly Anne’s voice providing the song’s melodic drive. The quietly devastating lyrics are “about the realization that you never belonged somewhere you desperately thought you wanted to,” says Kimberly Anne. As she sings the chorus “I must be built of different stuff than what your love is made of” the honesty of her delivery is palpable.
Describing her music as “acoustic pop married to indie, whilst having an obsessive love affair with Afro/Caribbean and Brazilian rhythms,” Kimberly Anne’s eclectic musical style was shaped by the constant sound clash at home when she was growing up: her Dad blasting out Jimi Hendrix and Van Morrison, her Mum playing Tracy Chapman, and her older sister blaring out Mary J Blige and Common. After dropping out of College and working in a variety of jobs, Kimberly Anne taught herself to play the guitar by learning songs by The Cure and Bloc Party and began to perform at open mic nights. After exploring the music of Mali, West Africa, she was inspired add unusual percussion to her bedroom recordings using sounds made from stomping on the floor, hitting Ikea tables and drumming her chest.
In 2012, Kimberly Anne recorded an EP with Ed Sheeran producer Julian Simmons, self-releasing it the same year. She started to hear from record labels soon after, eventually inking with Polydor who “were brave enough to give me and my weird bedroom demos a shot at making a debut record. They even let me go to West Africa before I started recording.”
