★★★★★
Considering the critical hosannas that met the duo's first album, Crooks and Lovers, the reception for Mount Kimbie's second album has been a bit lukewarm. These CSFLY Remixes seem almost like a corrective, recruiting three purposely of-the-moment remixers--Detroit's hyped MPC mangler Kyle Hall, Hamburg's evergreen DJ Koze, and crushworthy reshaper Lee Gamble--to put any doubts about the pair's relevance to bed...
- www.xlr8r.com
2013-10-30
★★★★★
These days it's almost against the law for any semi-electronic group to release an album without following it up with a slew of remixes later that year. It's a trend that's not terribly old, but seems ubiquitous now, and is a great little refresher tactic. There's so much music currently that even the standout albums get forgotten quicker than they should. A remix album can draw you right back into the original material, even if the remixes are average, as is the case with ...
- exclaim.ca
2013-10-26
★★★★★
As they grew out of the same electronic music scene that birthed the likes of James Blake and Darkstar, the rise to success for Mount Kimbie and their subtle, fragmented electronic dance music was a quick one. The erratic cut-and-paste of their debut Crooks and Lovers has since been reduced and concentrated into a more refined musical vernacular, one that doesn't try to give voice to so many different ideas at once...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-07-10
★★★★★
In the late aughts, Mount Kimbie -- the British electronic duo of Kai Campos and Dom Maker -- rose to prominence as part of the "post-dubstep" movement. From the start, this classification was a problematic one, reductive in its aim to connect the contemporaneous yet aesthetically distinct musical works of a group of young British producers...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-06-22
★★★★★
Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Post-dubstep is a trite title, really. A genre that was supposedly pioneered by London duo Mount Kimbie, it's a moniker that doesn't do them any justice at all. Why? Because dubstep has always been, to put in clichéd terms, all style over substance. It has become is emotionally destitute, save physical interplay, born and bred on the dance floor.
Mount Kimbie no doubt originated from that scene back in 2006, but bid their farewell a long time ago...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-06-14
★★★★★
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In 2010, Mount Kimbie established themselves as world-class electronic tinkerers with Crooks & Lovers, their debut full-length. A shambolic yet highly efficient fusion of bass, indie rock, R&B and more experimental fare, the album didn't sound like much else, which helped it strike a chord across different music scenes...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2013-06-12
★★★★★
Mount Kimbie's brilliant debut Crooks and Lovers helped define the 'post-dubstep' sound. Whilst some American dubstep artist were competing for listener's attentions by seeing who could be the most aggressively irritating, post-dubstep artists like Mount Kimbie, Burial and James Blake were taking the music in much more intimate, melancholic directions. Warm organic sounds brushed up against conventional dubstep elements like stick'n'kick beats, finely diced vocal samples and rumbling bass...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-05-31
★★★★★
Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, the duo that makes up Mount Kimbie, have matured greatly since 2010?s debut full-length, Crooks And Lovers, gaining not only wisdom but a tactfulness that only comes from being in complete control of your sound. The group's sophomore album, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, takes chances, displaying a willingness to experiment and tinker with the pair's core sound. And it does so with a sense of confidence...
- www.cmj.com
2013-06-02
★★★★★
By the time Mount Kimbie released their debut album Crooks & Lovers in 2010, dubstep had already bounced off happily to the mainstream. The record's light steps and airy voicing led at least one critic to cough up the term "post-dubstep" for the first time, but really the British duo were coursing down a vein that already ran parallel to the cartoon bass drops that were starting to fill amphitheaters and SUVs...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-05-31