Love What Survives

Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
Critic Score
Based on 29 reviews
2017 Ratings: #241 / 940
User Score
Based on 441 ratings
2017 Rank: #226
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Skinny

For their third LP, Mount Kimbie have lost that previously razor sharp focus. Love What Survives offers a scattergun approach to ideas, sounds and voices, and it could be their greatest record yet.

90
Tiny Mix Tapes

Love What Survives is a revelation — a summation of their work to-date without specific precedent for any individual track.

84
Pitchfork
The duo’s music was always full of the small details, but they now conspire toward something bigger.
80
Loud and Quiet

Three albums in with ‘Love What Survives’, they’re moving forward once again with a floating mix of motorik beats, woozy pop and some solid vocal collaborations.

80
Q Magazine
Their sound is now driven by a tensile energy that sounds like they've been mainlining the early Factory catalogue.
80
Mixmag
Here, they sound comfortable as a band rather than an electronic duo who use guitars, with off-kilter songs that nod towards Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine and are full of fizzing synths and weeping accordions confirming their status as one of alternative pop’s finest acts.
80
Record Collector
That process of sonic expansion is continued apace on this latest effort.
80
FLOOD Magazine

What makes Love What Survives the duo’s strongest work to date, however, isn’t their use of high profile guests. Instead, this is the first time Mount Kimbie has turned their brilliant sketches into monumental songs.

80
Crack Magazine

Sure, the bar may have been set lower this time, but there’s no question that Love What Survives reinstates Mount Kimbie’s reputation as credible musical innovators.

80
XLR8R

Some might be disappointed that, for now, they’ve moved further away from dance music. But in the process, they’ve made a bewitching kind of music that’s uniquely their own.

80
Mojo

Raw yet warm, Love What Survives has a distinctively comforting setting.

80
The Guardian

On their third album, the band’s instrumentals radiate wit and warmth, like mid-80s New Order sloshing around in a sun-kissed sea – but it’s as a foil to some of Britain’s most idiosyncratic artists that Mount Kimbie really prove their mettle.

80
Clash
On each listen ‘Love What Survives’ is a record full of raw honesty, both musically and artistically, and is worth your undivided attention.
80
Resident Advisor

Love What Survives won't make Mount Kimbie household names, but it finds them in a new creative space that suits them.

80
DIY

It’s more of a slow burner – not so instantly gratifying as previous works – but the atmosphere of these tracks really gets beneath you. It’s their most affecting work to date by some stretch.

80
Under the Radar
With four guest vocalists, each with very different ranges and vocal sentiments, Mount Kimbie have done well to piece together a tight album from what otherwise could very quickly have become a disparate collection of tracks.
80
No Ripcord

Never does it hide the duo’s own merits, as they embrace a more vibrant form of beat-driven electronica that also functions in a rock context with collaboration at its heart. 

80
AllMusic

Ultimately, Mount Kimbie strip away any musical excess on Love What Survives, and leave raw vivid emotion.

80
PopMatters
Despite elements of the previous records having survived in the process, the pair is further opening up its sound, exploring further possibilities that didn’t appear on its radar a few years back. The result is such an astounding record, which on one hand exists in the past, while on the other it looks forward into the future.
75
The Line of Best Fit

Though it may seem ironic that for all the glitches, warps and pops of their earlier material, Mount Kimbie find themselves gravitating towards the simplest of beats, Love What Survives is a close examination of how rhythm can define and alter our perceptions of electronic music.

75
Northern Transmissions
In a world where (post-)dubstep seems to have been wiped clean from every iPod and Spotify playlist, Mount Kimbie is making music for a new era, marrying their talent for engaging, propulsive instrumentals with a generous helping of young British talent.
75
A.V. Club

A record that scans more like a playlist—an expertly curated “Late-Night London” mix linked by general atmosphere and autobiographical connection—rather than an individual work of art.

70
Exclaim!

There's nothing here that really grabs you on the first listen, but return to the record a few times and you'll end up carrying songs like the aforementioned "Marilyn" and "T.A.M.E.D" around with you for days.

70
Uncut
Categorisable, but mostly excellent.
70
Drowned in Sound

There are parts of Love What Survives that you’ll want to dive straight back into again ... and then others that are a little more ephemeral. One thing that is true throughout though: Mount Kimbie continue to broaden their scope and push the bounds of we can expect from them as a band.

65
The 405
Let’s hope Mount Kimbie strike a better balance between showing off themselves and their friends next time around.
60
The Observer

As tracks quickly pivot between ragged indie rock, melodic dance music and wistful, tinkly tunes, the record feels disjointed, but a few productions stand out as some of their most inventive yet.

20
Spectrum Culture
Mellow music makes sense. Ambient music takes you places and shows you things or rolls in a fog which can inspire enriching thoughts. This album has none of that, it just provides track after track of producers idling and noodling their way through things they find interesting but that probably don’t belong on a record.
Slush_Puppy
83

Best Mount Kimbie album.
The duo combines the concepts and sounds of their last two albums into a perfect blend of indietronica. The production on Delta seriously blew me away.

Melancoholic
45

Mediocre.

LAVS
77

Four Years and One Day - 7.5/10
Blue Train Lines - 8.5/10
Audition - 8/10
Marilyn - 7.5/10
SP12 Beat - 7/10
You Look Certain (I'm Not So Sure) - 8.5/10
Poison - 6.5/10
We Go Home Together - 8/10
Delta - 8/10
T.A.M.E.D - 8/10
How We Got By - 7.5/10

Dunklenut
79

varied and moving pieces of both electronic and traditional methods. Propped up further by some features to add even more life to some of the tracks

Sage13
50

it just sounds very amateurish and boring.

83

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Added on: July 12, 2017