Kim Baxter Music

REVIEWS for the tale of me and you

“Baxter was the most noticeable voice in the wonderful Portland punk quartet All Girl Summer Fun Band. They never pushed too hard. On her first album under her own name, Baxter does. "Oval Frame" is Nirvana with radio distortion around the sides. "Arc de Triomphe", not that far from Freddy Cannon's "Palisades Park", is a celebration of an I'll-do-anything-for-you love that you know won't last, except in memory.”
-Greil Marcus, The Believer (October 2012)

“Kim Baxter's The Tale of Me and You is nothing short of a musical marvel; smart, sophisticated indie rock that draws from The White Album to Doolittle and everything interesting in between. Ambitious in its various tones and textures, though consistently intimate, these ten tunes play like a best-of album. If there's any fairness left in the world, "Devil On My Side" would be blaring in record stores all summer long.”
-Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned

“With the All Girl Summer Fun Band in hibernation, sweet-voiced Kim Baxter takes her first solo sojourn on the self-released The Tale of Me and You. This is catchy, fetching indie-pop like your big sister used to make: guitars to the front, upbeat beats, pretty choruses about love and regret. The opener, “Intelligent Lovers,” leaps with that olʼ Velocity Girl urgency, rides along on a smooth synth riff and, why not, ends with a slow-volume fade. Pretty, unexpected.”
-Patrick Rapa, Philadelphia City Paper