[1] Finding school uninspiring, she moved out of home at age 16 and started playing solo shows with her guitar in between jobs.

Their music has been described as "a collection of sounds falling somewhere between the lush dramatics of low, galaxy 500 and the layered guitar genius of slowdive and my bloody valentine, mellow slow building walls of noise interspersed with some very sultry vocals and acoustic tracks".

"[8] A reviewer writes "If Kim’s debut Twelve was a lo-fi warning of what was to come, and her sophomore outing Cover & Flood was a sprawling epic, than Salt is unflinching precision.

From the opening distorted pounding textures of ‘Ghosts’ to the slow-motion suspended repose of ‘Body Breaks’ Katie Kim has honed her sound down to an exact art.

The music lingers, but never outstays its welcome while the atmospheres around it build into a dreamlike stasis that Kim maintains from beginning to end.

Arranged as one 29 minute piece, these are not shiny nor pristine but raw form, thoughts and ideas I didn't want to leave behind.

She names Harmony Korine, David Lynch and John Carpenter as her “all-time favorite” directors that helped inform her latest album, Hour of the Ox, released last September.

When I acknowledge my familiarity with Korine’s Kids, she shows that her undercurrents run deeper, pronouncing “Gummo and Julian Donkey Boy” her primary influences from Korine.Regarding the soundtrack composition, Kim cites Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and pronounces herself a “huge fan” of Mica Levy, specifically the Jackie soundtrack.

They sound like [it’s] raining, and I got into the bending of strings.”[13] She directed both Music Videos for the singles from Hour of the Ox, Mona and Eraser.

She has worked with various musicians and bands, including Lankum, Halves, Mike Scott and The Waterboys, David Kitt, Ed Harcourt.

In 2018 Radie Peat, a member of Lankum and Katie Kim collaborated on a one night only live show of songs about murder, revenge and lust.