It takes just a few minutes of “’90s Music”—one of the sparkling singles from Kimbra’s second album—to realize that the eclectic New Zealand pop sensation has talent far beyond the bittersweet guest vocal she offered on Gotye’s ubiquitous smash “Somebody That I Used to Know”. Kimbra’s wild electro-pop pastiche namechecks Nirvana and TLC, unleashes a radiant blast of synthesizers and juxtaposes the singer’s nimble vocal with an 808 thump. It’s a perfect example of the brilliantly frenetic mélange that defines The Golden Echo. The album’s list of collaborators exemplifies its range—calling on everyone from ultra-cool rock heavyweights like Muse frontman Matt Bellamy and Mars Volta guitarist/bandleader Omar Rodríguez-López to orchestral pop icon Van Dyke Parks and cutting-edge R&B vocalist Bilal. But when a pair of album highlights come back to back (the propulsive “Love in High Places” and the funky, ’70s-influenced R&B banger “Nobody but You”), the bright textures, inventive hooks and head-spinning influences evince Kimbra’s singular touch.