The Sunset Violent

It’s kind of funny that of London indietronica bands of the 2010s, Mount Kimbie started as one of the most electronic – associated with the “post-dubstep” milieu along with friends like the Hessle Audio crew, James Blake and Scuba, whose Hotflush imprint released their early work – but very quickly became one of the most clasically indie, eventually adding drummer Marc Pell and keyboardist/singer Andrea Balency-Béarn to the original duo of Kai Campos and Dominic Maker to become a fully-fledged band. Thus their fifth album, which is heavy on the Joy Division and late 80s shoegaze influences, made particularly moody by extra vocals from Southeast Londoner King Krule – yet it remains resolutely modernist, and while nowhere near as digital as its immediate predecessor Mk 3.5 Die Cuts | City Planning, it still has an undercurrent of virtual strangeness.