Primal Heart is the third studio album by New Zealand musician Kimbra.

[5] It had originally been scheduled for release on 19 January 2018, but was pushed back.

[6] Kimbra released "Hi Def Distance Romance" as a free exclusive download to fans signed up to her mailing list.

Primal Heart was positively received by music critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 75 based on five reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".