“Here’s a thought experiment: if Mount Kimbie’s history wasn’t already known, and you had to imagine one that explains the contents of The Sunset Violent, what would it look like? A musically literate post-punk group going up through the gears of songwriting complexity over a series of albums, perhaps? Maybe a familiar story of a conventional rock band embracing the digital fringes of their genre a”
“Expanding from a duo to a four-piece, the left-field electronic veterans pull off sonic and structural changes in a seamless way.”
“Mount Kimbie embrace the wilderness on The Sunset Violent”
“When Mount Kimbie co-founders Dominic Maker and Kai Campos decided it was time to begin work on a new album, the first thing the pair did was abandon their respective lives – Dominic working as a songwriter in Los Angeles and Kai spinning hardware DJ sets throughout England – and run off. They found themselves in a remote Californian town, with little to offer besides a few saloons, a basin known ”
“Dominic Maker and Kai Campos blaze another new path, but the genre vagabonds get a little lost in their sleek shoegaze post-rock album.”
