Kimi Nickerson flipped the script on feigned kindness in Enemies, a brutalist synth-pop reclamation of power

The beautifully brutal alt-electro pop producer and singer-songwriter Kimi Nickerson laced Enemies with an elegance that masks its lethal impact. Synths swirl like smoke from scorched bridges, strings ache with wounded restraint, and beneath it all, the sub bass and war drums crawl like the slow realisation that the people closest to you were only ever biding their time. There’s no softness in this reckoning, only a scathing refusal to sink to gutter-low levels, because why kill with kindness when the blade of reciprocity cuts so much sharper? Nickerson’s discography is rapidly becoming an anthology of cinematic self-reclamation. Anyone who finds the key to it will unlock an artist whose profound introspection, merged with her artful synthscapes, gives you the freedom to breathe as an unfuckwithably enlightened entity. In Enemies, she doesn’t play the game, she becomes it, blurred at the edges but razor-sharp at the core. She’s not preening herself into the perfect pop package, she’s digging deeper, excavating aural architecture that stands tall enough to change the whole landscape of alt-electro pop. Through KG Records, the label she co-founded, she’s already redefining what autonomy sounds like. And if Enemies is anything to go by, Nickerson won’t be shrinking […] The post Kimi Nickerson flipped the script on feigned kindness in Enemies, a brutalist synth-pop reclamation of power appeared first on A&R Factory.

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The beautifully brutal alt-electro pop producer and singer-songwriter Kimi Nickerson laced Enemies with an elegance that masks its lethal impact. Synths swirl like smoke from scorched bridges, strings ache with wounded restraint, and beneath it all, the sub bass and war drums crawl like the slow realisation that the people closest to you were only ever biding their time. There’s no softness in this reckoning, only a scathing refusal to sink to gutter-low levels, because why kill with kindness when the blade of reciprocity cuts so much sharper? Nickerson’s discography is rapidly becoming an anthology of cinematic self-reclamation. Anyone who finds the key to it will unlock an artist whose profound introspection, merged with her artful synthscapes, gives you the freedom to breathe as an unfuckwithably enlightened entity. In Enemies, she doesn’t play the game, she becomes it, blurred at the edges but razor-sharp at the core. She’s not preening herself into the perfect pop package, she’s digging deeper, excavating aural architecture that stands tall enough to change the whole landscape of alt-electro pop. Through KG Records, the label she co-founded, she’s already redefining what autonomy sounds like. And if Enemies is anything to go by, Nickerson won’t be shrinking […]

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