Blöndal is also a member of Hudson Wayne and Mr. Silla and Bjarnason plays drums Seabear and has performed on a number of other Icelandic independent albums.

kimono's most recent studio album, Easy Music for Difficult People, was released by Kimi Records on 4 December 2009.

Some of the members of Kaktus continued in kimono including guitarist Blöndal, drummer Thráinn Óskarsson and bassist Halldór Ragnarsson.

Óskarsson left the band in 2003 to concentrate on his other musical project, Hudson Wayne, and was replaced by Kjartan Bragi Bjarnason (also of Seabear).

Curver was assisted in the recording of the album by Birgir Örn Steinarsson of the Icelandic rock band Maus who is also titled co-producer.

[7] The first single off that record, Aftermath, drew comparisons to late 1970s art rock bands such as Television and the album was widely lauded in the Icelandic press with both of the largest national newspapers giving it a full 5 star review.

kimono was not very active during this period, although they played an improvised concert with Damo Suzuki of Can in October 2012 during that artist's visit to Iceland for the Reykjavík Film Festival.