Artist Spotlight: Connie Lim 08-18-10
Connie Lim, rising LA native singer/songwriter collaborates with LA’s best musicians and artists, creating The Hunted, an album that calls attention to current global issues with hope and vulnerability. Lim packed Hotel Café and Hotel Utah to maximum capacity, and continues onward.
Connie Lim’s steadily growing fan-base has dubbed her music to be “retrotronica”, a style that has been personally defined by Lim to be “old-school songwriting backed by electronica sentiment.” Inspired by current artists – namely Imogen Heap, Feist, and Bjork – Lim has been developing her sound for the past two years in the depths of Los Angeles, CA after graduating from UC Berkeley.
After the victorious release of “The Hunted” at Hotel Cafe, Lim is being noted by the music industry, as she has already made her “way to [AMP]‘s shortlist of talents to watch for the second half of 2010. Connie is one of the most brilliant emerging vocalists out there.” -AmpArtists.com. While Audrey Magazine calls Lim’s music “a breath of fresh air in this time of “Bieber Fever” and autotune”, her music continues to be noted by the media, including NBC LA, KPCRadio.com, and popular blogs like a-tunes.net, 8asians.com, and ChannelApa.com.
According to Flavorpill.com, The Hunted unfolds her musings on the fluidity of relationship and social structures through the momentum of moody strings, lush piano and electronic textures…an intimate and unselfconscious performer [whose] songs will literally bloom in front of you.” As she says herself, “We are all the hunted, or the underdog, in some way or another. I sing for that side within each of us.”