Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Critic Score
Based on 26 reviews
2013 Ratings: #403 / 1115
User Score
Based on 159 ratings
2013 Rank: #301
Liked by 16 people
May 28, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Warp / Label
Future Garage / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Skinny
A step away from the dancefloor, and into the unknown – this is an important, enchanting LP for 2013. Imaginitive to the point that it's quite impossible to classify.
83
Beats Per Minute

Each track posseses different sounds, colours, styles and textures, but they combine to make an odd but strangely appealing whole.

83
Pretty Much Amazing

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is a fascinating record, a series of varied and elaborate soundscapes that find the right balance of mood and melody. 

80
PopMatters

Mount Kimbie is not a place on Earth but rather a place in your mind. Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is an invitation to take an adventure to that place and discover the clairvoyant sights and sounds. 

80
AllMusic

The evolving and growing Mount Kimbie remain a keeper.

80
NME

It's an album that claws for attention, the careful nuances, shuffling rhythms and strange emotions of their first outing fine-tuned into something unmissable.

80
FasterLouder

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is both a great album and a remarkable document of the here and now. It also proves the futility of trying to put Mount Kimbie in a pigeonhole.

80
Exclaim!

Moving away from the ambient, voiceless soundscapes of their debut, Crooks and Lovers, the new record filters elements of hip-hop, fuzzed-out indie rock, jazz and house through the band's peculiar aesthetic, to mesmerizing effect.

77
Pitchfork

Cold Spring succeeds because Maker and Campos go out of their way to foil their default, kempt state.

75
XLR8R
When Maker and Campos succeed on their second full-length—as they do more often than not across its tracklist—they do so with an inherent grace and unique creativity. But when the album falters, it sounds as if Mount Kimbie has succumbed to the pack artists who have been following in the pair's footsteps from the beginning.
75
The Line of Best Fit

Whilst it does feels devoid of any of the supposed reinvention promised by the duo, it is the aptitude with which the two marry, at times very disparate, sources of inspiration that impresses.

70
Drowned in Sound

What at first might have appeared as a cynical attempt at increasing their accessibility, has, for these ears anyway, demonstrated the same distinctive originality which won over so many people in the first place.

70
DIY

In short, this is one of the most engaging dance albums you're likely to hear this year.

70
FACT Magazine

Obviously taking full advantage of expanded resources, Cold Spring is very well constructed and curated, showcasing a wide range of approaches.

70
Under the Radar

Neither languishing nor veering off tangentially, Mount Kimbie have doubtlessly secured themselves longevity with this album.

70
Consequence of Sound

Cold Spring lives on contrast, on stitching together mismatched parts into living mutants. It’s less whole than Crooks & Lovers, less content with the lines drawn around it.

70
SPIN
James Blake swag surfers mold shattered dubstep into rainy-day full-band brooding.
70
musicOMH

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is an album that’s as purposefully awkward as its title: cleverly put together, but occasionally just not very much fun.

65
The 405

Mount Kimbie are mostly out to prove they aren't the same band they used to be, and it often sounds like that. 

60
Resident Advisor

While Cold Spring is in many ways a massive leap forward for Mount Kimbie, it's also the sort of transitional album you might expect from a group with a knockout debut.

60
Time Out London
The Londoners move into trippy, wonky and bleak territory
60
Tiny Mix Tapes

The group’s sophomore LP Cold Spring Fault Less Youth — in a similar way to James Blake’s gorgeously refined second album Overgrown — finds them furthering their sonic explorations, naturally and comfortably progressing.

MikeOwen
95

The Collective Collaborative Review #10: My Pick

Mount Kimbie are one of my favourite groups of all time. I found out about them thanks to James Blake’s contributions to their latest album “Love What Survives”, and have since come to hold all of their records very close to my heart; their music caused me to reevaluate what I looked for in electronic music, with their somewhat understated, frequently low-key and apparently minimalist approach. I've read that they pioneered the ... read more

AyeItsJoey
48

XXX3 Entry 21:

Some interesting production with some of the electronic influences and such, like I could imagine aphex twin making an album similar to this, however the vocals are not great, like at all, fairly varied and none of it is good.

Melancoholic
30

Blah.

caddicarusfan15
62

FUTURE GARAGE!!!!!!
THE FUTURE GARAGE IS REAL!!!!!
[UPDATE: 71-->62 cuz i'm not a fan of IDM/Hybrid shit]

AyeItsJoey
48

XXX3 Entry 21:

Some interesting production with some of the electronic influences and such, like I could imagine aphex twin making an album similar to this, however the vocals are not great, like at all, fairly varied and none of it is good.

Melancoholic
30

Blah.

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Added on: March 25, 2013