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May 30, 2013Package it all together in an album that's sensibly sized and runs smooth as silk, and the evolving and growing Mount Kimbie remain a keeper.
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Jun 12, 2013Each track posseses different sounds, colours, styles and textures, but they combine to make an odd but strangely appealing whole.
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May 31, 2013They’ve clearly set out to be innovators not duplicators, and Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is yet another one of their projects that crosses electronic music boundaries and produces something extraordinary.
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May 30, 2013Cold Spring lives on contrast, on stitching together mismatched parts into living mutants. It’s less whole than Crooks & Lovers, less content with the lines drawn around it.
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Jun 12, 2013Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is as confident and assured as any great follow-up can be, showcasing a group that is not afraid to cross genre-borders and cast aside the meek post-dubstep moniker.
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May 23, 2013This is one of the most engaging dance albums you're likely to hear this year.
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May 24, 2013Only time will tell whether CSFLY turns out to be as seminal as Crooks and Lovers, but that isn’t important. What is important is that it’s an accomplished, interesting and thoroughly enjoyable body of work that will be played again and again and again, on the radio, at festivals and in bedrooms the world over.
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May 24, 2013Nothing is off the table, influences are blended and bounced off each other, and it's this tension between elements that makes this a very special record.
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May 23, 2013On the whole, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is a cerebral and arresting follow-up forged in harmonious invention.
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May 23, 2013Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is an album that’s as purposefully awkward as its title: cleverly put together, but occasionally just not very much fun.
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May 28, 2013Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is not entirely faultless, then--but it comes close.
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May 29, 2013Cold Spring is miles from epic or strained, and it's comfortable with its imbalance.
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May 28, 2013Cold Spring Fault Less Youth carries along the same basic electronic components that you could pick up on in previous Mount Kimbie releases, but beneath the surface is a sound with a texture all its own.
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May 28, 2013Ultimately Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is a fascinating record, a series of varied and elaborate soundscapes that find the right balance of mood and melody.
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Jun 11, 2013So while Cold Spring is in many ways a massive leap forward for Mount Kimbie, it's also the sort of transitional album you might expect from a group with a knockout debut.
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May 23, 2013The mood is what is rendered most effectively: delicate synth tones are set to echoing percussion and low-key distortion, and the melodies are melancholy.
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May 28, 2013At a time when dance and electronic becomes increasingly homogenised by the mainstream, Mount Kimbie have released an album that still refuses to court the mundane.
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May 28, 2013Kimbie's levels of invention are such that this album still feels tricksy and cutting-edge.
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Jun 13, 2013many of these songs see Campos and Maker presenting compelling musical ideas that simply aren’t expanded upon in an equally compelling manner. Still, Mount Kimbie frequently succeed here in capturing inspired, stirring musical ideas.
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UncutMay 23, 2013All the hustle, serendipity and moments of beautiful clarity that characterise urban life are here in nuanced, very modern song. [Jul 2013, p.78]
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Under The RadarJun 13, 2013Neither languishing nor veering off tangentially, Mount Kimbie have doubtlessly secured themselves longevity with this album. [Jun-Jul 2013, p.99]
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May 29, 2013Clocking in at a breezy 37 minutes, Mount Kimbie's second album feels a bit slight by the time it's finished, though not because it's short on great ideas or compelling tunes.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Jan 12, 2014