Each track posseses different sounds, colours, styles and textures, but they combine to make an odd but strangely appealing whole.
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.
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.
The evolving and growing Mount Kimbie remain a keeper.
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.
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.
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.
Cold Spring succeeds because Maker and Campos go out of their way to foil their default, kempt state.
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.
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.
In short, this is one of the most engaging dance albums you're likely to hear this year.
Obviously taking full advantage of expanded resources, Cold Spring is very well constructed and curated, showcasing a wide range of approaches.
Neither languishing nor veering off tangentially, Mount Kimbie have doubtlessly secured themselves longevity with this album.
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.
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.
Mount Kimbie are mostly out to prove they aren't the same band they used to be, and it often sounds like that.
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.
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.
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
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.
FUTURE GARAGE!!!!!!
THE FUTURE GARAGE IS REAL!!!!!
[UPDATE: 71-->62 cuz i'm not a fan of IDM/Hybrid shit]
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.
1 | Home Recording 4:38 | |
2 | You Took Your Time 5:13 feat. King Krule | 90 |
3 | Break Well 3:41 | |
4 | Blood and Form 3:53 | |
5 | Made to Stray 4:45 | |
6 | So Many Times, So Many Ways 4:07 | |
7 | Lie Near 3:25 | |
8 | Meter, Pale, Tone 3:31 feat. King Krule | |
9 | Slow 3:19 | |
10 | Sullen Ground 3:30 | |
11 | Fall Out 2:34 |
#13 | / | Bleep |
#27 | / | Listen Before You Buy |
#36 | / | Clash |
#38 | / | The Fly |
#48 | / | Obscure Sound |