Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers

Artist………: Mount Kimbie
Title……….: Crooks & Lovers
Label……….: Hotflush
Year………..: 2010
Genre……….: Electronic

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Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos – are set to release their highly anticipated debut album Crooks & Lovers on Scubas Hotflush label in July. Mount Kimbies first two EPs – Maybes and Sketch On Glass – seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were
instantly turned into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds. Difficult to categorise, the lush EPs caused a commotion when released last year with Sketch On Glass recently undergoing reworks from the likes of Faulty DL, SCB (Scubas darker techno alias and their sometime collaborator James Blake. With their own remixes
Foals and The xx) becoming hot property, Mount Kimbie have been a core part of the growing scene in London often associated with labels like Hyperdub and Hessle Audio. Dom and Kai met whilst at Southbank University, pushed together in a student halls that was previously a mental asylum – where the ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves: a cold, joyless, concrete building the sort of building where youd drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo. Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning Londons ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Groupers sad-eyed glow, DAngelos pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrums Microphones, Angelo Badalamentis swollen Twin Peaks atmospheres find a cradle in Madlibs lax lope. The bands sound and response to the dubstep moment is very much their own

Tracklist:
01. Tunnelvision (1:50)
02. Would Know (3:17)
03. Before I Move Off (4:12)
04. Blind Night Errand (3:23)
05. Adriatic (1:28)
06. Carbonated (4:20)
07. Ruby (4:05)
08. Ode To Bear (4:02)
09. Field (3:05)
10. Mayor (4:02)
11. Between Time (1:54)