ARTIST...: Mount Kimbie
TITLE....: Love What Survives
YEAR.....: 2017
LABEL....: Warp Records
CAT.NO...: WARPLP288X
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 38:59
SIZE.....: 66,44 MB
QUALITY..: 236kbps/48,0kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME 3.98.4 -V0
SOURCE...: Vinyl (x2)
RLS.DATE.: 2017/09/20
WEBSITE..: https://bleep.com/release/86859-mount-kimbie-love-what-survives
TRACKLIST
01) (03:16) Four Years and One Day
02) (04:08) Blue Train Lines (feat. King Krule)
03) (04:13) Audition
04) (04:04) Marilyn (feat. Micachu)
05) (02:31) SP12 Beat
06) (03:20) You Look Certain (I'm Not So Sure) (feat. Andrea Balency)
07) (01:52) Poison
08) (02:32) We Go Home Together (feat. James Blake)
09) (04:01) Delta
10) (04:08) T.A.M.E.D
11) (04:54) How We Got By (feat. James Blake)
Mount Kimbie's new album Love What Survives arrives four years since their Warp debut
Cold Spring Faultless Youth. Produced mostly on just two vintage synths, a Korg MS-20
and a Korg Delta, and featuring a vast wave of friends and collaborators: Micachu,
James Blake, Andrea Balency and King Krule, Love What Survives is a bold statement
that takes you on a journey through a motorik post-punk landscape, a vivid dream
within this singular band's newly formed sound.
Recorded between London and LA and featuring a close knit family of collaborators,
many of whom appeared on their NTS radio takeover shows that the band hosted with
guests ranging from Micachu, James Blake and King Krule to William Basinski, Actress,
Savages, Connan Mockasin, Warpaint and Julia Holter, the sounds and styles of these
artists all appear to have immersed themselves in the thoughts and production
techniques of Mount Kimbie's latest and greatest.
Opening with the fittingly titled Four Years and One Day, what is instantly the most
striking aspect is the newly stripped-back approach to production. The Korg keys
repeatedly buzz under a Kosmiche drumbeat that drives forward the vigor while
alluding to something darker, just under the surface. This is followed by Blue Train
Lines, pulling in the vocal talents of King Krule it picks up the pieces left behind
by the Cold Spring Faultless Youth highlight 'You Took Your Time'. The firing-on-
all-cylinders energy is ripe throughout the collaboration and adds a sense of raw
emergency to the track. The expansive leanings of Auditon throw open images of the
vast city streets of L.A., the heat beating down and a psychedelic tilt to the
instrumentation casting a blurred mirage across the spectrum, while the music carries
a pure punk attitude, the soulful elements confound this aspect by tripping on the
sunshine.
Recent single Marilyn brings the vocal talents of Micachu to create wonderfully
captivating few minutes of Wyatt-style left field pop. Experimenting with the
furthest reaches of the club sounds that they first came up in, SP12 Beat sees Mount
Kimbie return to the tropical bass roots of early records such as Sketch On Glass
while calling to mind fellow Warp artists Darkstar's recent collaboration with Zomby
on Hyperdub, Quandary.
Elsewhere they return to the stripped back low-fi vibe, the chugging rhythms of You
Look Certain (I'm Not So Sure) feature the talents of Andrea Balency, its fuzzy
radiophonic flow could be Andy Stott playing the bass for a Tender Buttons-era
Broadcast demo, then things drop down a gear for the selected glacial piano work of
Poison. A track so delicate it seemingly unravels from the go, playing out quietly
until it suddenly seems to simply disappear in its entirety.
In expected fashion the two collaborations with James Blake are modern soulful blues
classics in the making, We Go Home Together has a flicker of the early bass-centric
days of both artists, yet some moments sound as if the music is bubbling up from deep
underwater, while How We Got By adds an acoustic guitar for some serious late night
downtown vibes. Delta and T.A.M.E.D bring the album to a full circle, representing
the two cities it was recorded in and perfectly cementing the two sides of the coin
each place brings. From the hustle and bustle of London which is greatly excavated on
Delta with its Neu! 75 vibe catapulting us along, at once too fast to slow down, but
never feeling hectic, to T.A.M.E.D taking the pure Los Angeles heavy-funk vibe within
its Washed Out style stance, building in momentum while it runs ahead with a rainbow
of pure joy flowing out behind it, leaving a trail of notes for you to follow over
and over, time and time again.
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