After announcing a string of live shows for the summer, Mount Kimbie now release their eagerly awaited sophomore album. ‘Cold Spring Fault Less Youth’

‘Cold Spring…’ combines the electronic sensibilities of the debut album ‘Crooks and Lovers’ but sees Mount Kimbie move out of the bedroom and into a professional studio. Informed by their live shows, The duo of Dom Maker and Kai Campos have introduced more live instruments to broaden their sound including drums and horns as well as experimenting with vocals. The duo have undoubtedly grown, they are more experienced, more mature, more selfaware. “Two years is a long time,” says Maker. “Tastes change, what you want out of your life changes, and so on. Naturally, how we want to sound has changed too.” Unleashing themselves from the confines of dance music, the resulting album feels looser, richer and more enveloping than the duo’s past work, yet still retains that Mount Kimbie sound.

Perhaps this is a natural progression for a band who are no longer new kids on the block; an embrace of popular music which James Blake – a long-standing musical ally who was a member of the band for early live shows – has also graduated towards. Now entering their fifth year of success, the duo are aware that the rules of engagement have changed. “Things have gone as well as they could’ve gone for us so far, in terms of being a small band and finding an audience,” says Campos. “Certainly a bigger audience than we expected. But just because of the nature of our culture, people get very excited about new acts – and we’re not exactly new any more.” Not new, perhaps, but arguably more exciting and relevant than ever. “Since the first record came out we’ve been learning to be better artists really,” say Campos. Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is proof, if it were needed, that that journey hasn’t been in vain.