Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers

01. Tunnelvision
02. Would Know
03. Before I Move Off
04. Blind Night Errand
05. Adriatic
06. Ruby
07. Carbonated
08. Ode to Bear
09. Field
10. Mayor


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzxmWxkXgCg

  Quote

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 Scuba’s Hotflush label in July.

Mount Kimbie’s 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 Falty DL, SCB (Scuba’s 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 you’d 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 London’s 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 Grouper’s sad-eyed glow, D’Angelo’s pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum’s
Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti’s swollen ‘Twin Peaks’ atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib’s lax lope.

The band’s sound and response to the dubstep moment is very much their own. Sceneless and untethered from etiquette and genre codes, ‘Crooks & Lovers’ floats through dubstep and hip-hop,
jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores to startling effect.

yay!

i was never totally sold on their stuff, but that track up there is pretty solid, so i may have to give this a listen

Really looking forward to this innit.

Cover art is lol

  On 6/10/2010 at 3:47 AM, tipper said:

Cover art is lol

wtf nah

this is pretty dope.

been listening to a promotional copy of this - it is quality - i am set to purchase as soon as it's available - i love mount kimbie i must admit.

  On 6/17/2010 at 1:17 PM, troon said:

been listening to a promotional copy of this - it is very quality - i am set to purchase as soon as it's available - i just love mount kimbie i must admit.

I'll have to track that down

i'll drop some bread crumbs

out now on boomkat

Nice, I've been digging their Sketch on Glass EP for a while now, good to see a full length coming... I wish James Blake would get on releasing a full length as well, big fan of his stuff too.

  On 7/14/2010 at 12:41 AM, ghOsty said:

I wish James Blake would get on releasing a full length

got a collection of all his other twelves - think this might be the only one i'm missing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_6MLse0Lc&feature=related

Their stuff is great!

I saw them live maybe two weeks ago. Never heard to their material but their show really impressed me...Their use of sampler + live voices + conventional instruments was amazing. And it was raining, which added to their show some magical dimension. Yeah this show was like , too short though.

So I guess I'm gonna purchase this album as soon as I find it in the stores. But I must admit that I'm not a great fan of the album's sleeve.

Is this completely new material or were some tracks already released ?

  On 7/15/2010 at 7:36 PM, StocKo said:

i must admit that I'm not a great fan of the album's sleeve.

me neither

And here I found a new advantage of the mp3-era : it allows us to ignore the artwork

Ok ok I was kidding. But man ! This red sportswear ! Wtf ?!

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the artwork either (particularly since the EPs had pretty sweet art imo), but what I've heard so far sounds most excellent.

Downloaded the promo, on the first listen I dig it. If repeated listens go well, I will delete the promo rip and buy the CD.

Great album. I only got the one with the promo voice and that's killing me... but the songs are very very deep and funky and great... James Blake and Mount Kimbie are my dupstep-heroes right now.

But I saw them live at Berghain one week ago and they couldn't catch up with my expectations... did a lot live (drumming, playing guitar) and used lots of great tracks but somehow the magic and ass-kick was missing.

  On 7/17/2010 at 7:29 PM, tokn said:

James Blake and Mount Kimbie are my dupstep-heroes right now.

lol

  On 7/18/2010 at 2:38 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 6/9/2010 at 1:37 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

what happened to everyone hating this group.

i still hate them... well, maybe not hate, but I certainly don't like anything i've heard by them.

some words with the boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxfaMxzQpo&feature=related