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Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is the second studio album by British electronic music duo Mount Kimbie.[1] It was released on Warp Records on 27 May 2013.[1] Vocalist King Krule is featured on two tracks.[2]

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Studio album by
Mount Kimbie
Released27 May 2013 (2013-05-27)
GenreElectronic, post-dubstep, art pop
Length42:46
LabelWarp
ProducerDominic Maker, Kai Campos
Mount Kimbie chronology
Crooks & Lovers
(2010) 		Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
(2013) 		Love What Survives
(2017)

Background

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On 25 March 2013, Pitchfork announced the release of Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, Mount Kimbie's second album. The album was released on 28 May 2013 with Warp Records and features two collaborations with King Krule.[3] Single "Made to Stray" was first aired on London DJ Ben UFO's weekly Rinse FM show on 7 March 2013.[4] The track was also featured in an advert for Intel and FC Barcelona, along with "Break Well", another track from the album.[5]

Campos says in an interview with Pitchfork Media "With Mount Kimbie, we started off trying to imitate other stuff-- and we failed. But in failing to do that, we stumbled across a sound that's inherently our own. Failing to imitate others only happens because of the mindset that you come from. It's part of finding your own voice. When musicians go through that, the results are, by definition, original. Most of the music that sounds like it's been influenced by [Crooks & Lovers] that has come out since sounds fairly dull, and it's not something we want to carry on doing. We want to get away from it.".[6]

Maker says in an interview with FACT "The new stuff is a lot more free than the songs we’ve done before, in terms of composition. It’s still entirely produced on a computer, but the drums and percussion are much more live in their feel, in rhythm and in flow. In terms of the actual sound…it’s quite a bit bigger sounding that what we’ve done before. I think it’s still quite delicate material, but it has a bigger sound compared to the last album, and I think that must be informed really greatly by what we’ve spent the last two years doing – playing live."[7]

As part of album release, Mount Kimbie hosted their "Mount Kimbie & friends" Boiler Room session on 21 May. Guest DJs included James Blake, Gilles Peterson, Micachu, George Fitzgerald, Midland, Jon Rust, Reecha, and Demus.

Artwork for the album is by Leif Podhajsky,[8] and the official video for "Made To Stray" was also directed by him. A video for "You Took Your Time" was produced by Marcus Söderlund and released in July 2013.[9]

On 28 October 2013 Warp released the Mount Kimbie CSFLY Remixes EP, showcasing remixes off the Cold Spring Fault Less Youth album. Detroit techno wonderkid Kyle Hall, cosmic house artist DJ Koze, left field electronic experimentalist Lee Gamble & the South London "DJ's DJ" DJ Oneman ft. Jeremiah Jae all feature.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.3/10[10]
Metacritic81/100[11]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [12]
The Guardian     [13]
The Irish Times     [14]
Mixmag4/5[15]
NME8/10[16]
The Observer     [17]
Pitchfork7.7/10[18]
Resident Advisor3.0/5[2]
Uncut8/10[19]
XLR8R7.5/10[20]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth received an average score of 81% based on 22 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[11] Dummy Magazine included "Cold Spring Fault Less Youth" in their "Best Of 2013" list [21]

Bram E. Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 5 stars out of 5, saying: "After kickstarting the post-dubstep sound on Crooks & Lovers, Mount Kimbie have turned their attention towards stranger sounds and more challenging song structures, bringing Kai Campos' vocals to the fore."[22] Al Horner of NME described it as "an album that claws for attention, the careful nuances, shuffling rhythms and strange emotions of their first outing fine-tuned into something unmissable."[16]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Home Recording"4:38
2."You Took Your Time" (featuring King Krule)5:13
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" (featuring King Krule)3:31
9."Slow"3:19
10."Sullen Ground"3:30
11."Fall Out"2:34

Charts

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Chart (2013) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[23] 43
UK Albums (OCC)[24] 72
UK Dance Albums (OCC)[25] 9
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[26] 18
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[27] 20
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[28] 21

References

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  1. ^ a b Smithson, Logan (27 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". PopMatters. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b Rothlein, Jordan (11 June 2013). "Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Mount Kimbie Announce New LP | News". Pitchfork. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  4. ^ Swift, Patrick (10 March 2013). "New Mount Kimbie Aired On Rinse Fm". Mixmag. Archived from the original on 11 March 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  5. ^ "GIANT MEN MANAGEMENT: MOUNT KIMBIE SYNCH FOR FC BARCELONA ADVERTISMENT [sic]". giantmenmanagement.com. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Update: Mount Kimbie | Features". Pitchfork. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  7. ^ "'It's been a great experience': Mount Kimbie on signing to Warp and their upcoming second album – FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music". Factmag.com. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Mount Kimbie - 'Cold Sprint Fault Less Youth'". Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Mount Kimbie: You Took Your Time". Nowness. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Cold Spring Fault Less Youth by Mount Kimbie reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Reviews for Cold Spring Fault Less Youth by Mount Kimbie". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  12. ^ Jeffries, David. "Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – Mount Kimbie". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  13. ^ MacInnes, Paul (23 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  14. ^ Carroll, Jim (5 July 2013). "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  15. ^ Lawrence, James (21 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie". Mixmag. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  16. ^ a b Horner, Al (24 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie – 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth'". NME. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  17. ^ Empire, Kitty (26 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review". The Observer. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  18. ^ Gaerig, Andrew (29 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". Pitchfork. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  19. ^ "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". Uncut (194): 78. July 2013.
  20. ^ Fallon, Patric (29 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". XLR8R. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  21. ^ "The 20 best albums of 2013". Dummy Magazine. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  22. ^ Gieben, Bram E. (9 May 2013). "Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth". The Skinny. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  23. ^ "Ultratop.be – Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  24. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  25. ^ "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  26. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  27. ^ "Mount Kimbie Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  28. ^ "Mount Kimbie Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
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