You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Last month, in January 2023, Kimber put out her fourth album.
I was listening to it,
and it made me want to go back and revisit her Song Exploder episode from 2018.
It's one of my favorites.
Back then, she told me about the making of a song from her third album.
So if you missed this episode the first time around, I hope you'll enjoy it.
And if you heard it before, I hope you'll enjoy listening to it again as much as I did.
Kimbra is an artist from New Zealand.
Her first album came out in 2011.
And in 2013, she won two Grammys for her collaboration with Gautier,
the multi-platinum hit song, Somebody That I Used To Know.
In this episode, Kimbra breaks down a song of hers from 2018 called Top of the World.
Collaboration is a big part of this song as well.
Coming up,
Kimbra traces how musical experiments she made with Skrillex and Diplo ended up getting transformed into parts of this song.
My name is Kimbra.
The start of the song happened at Skrillex Studio.