Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Description

"It's about being respectful of each other," Dom explains about the art of collaboration. It's a simple ethos, but one that has paid off. Since 2009, Dom and his Mount Kimbie counterpart, Kai Campos, have played a central role in creating a new form of electronic music. In recent years, the duo has gradually migrated from clubs to concert halls and festivals; the addition of a drummer to their live guitar, keyboard, and percussion setup truly makes the new Mount Kimbie a band – in the more traditional sense. Where the sound world of their previous album Crooks & Lovers (2010) was largely electronic, their new tracks see the duo integrating live instrumentation with revitalized enthusiasm for electronics. In a sense, in 2013 Mount Kimbie ceases to be merely producers, becoming composers, performers, arrangers, and taking the reins of a fully realized project more than ever before. Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, streaked with warm organ chords and direct live drumming, feels freer, richer, and more alluring. Clearly, vocals have a prominent place, central protagonists in songs that transcend dancefloor conventions to explore undoubtedly ambitious forms: the musical language of Cold Spring Fault Less Youth evokes larger spaces, grandiose emotions.