Mount Kimbie - Blue train lines (feat. King Krule)

Mount Kimbie might be one of the most notable acts in the alternative dubstep scene, but up to this point their own personalty wasn't fully clear, and the lesser versed on the style, might have them mixed up with James Blake or Four Tet. But in their new album, Love What Survives, they want to make a clear statement of authenticity, and no other track makes the job as good as Blue Train Lines.

If this track still holds the main qualities of their previous job (the dark textures, the marked beats, the avant-garde experimentation), it also marks a difference with what they (or any of the similar acts) have done this far. Blue Train Lines is raw when they used to be moody and subtle, it's the most aggressive side of post-dubstep, it's the release of the feral instincts that were sulking in the dark tonalities of their sound.

It's the second collaboration they have with King Krule, but if in You Took Your Time it was Archy Marshall who accommodated to the electronic introspection of Mount Kimbie, now it is him who pull them out of the comfort zone (if that type of experimentations could be considered as such) towards the immediacy of his impulsive rapping. Blue Train Lines deals with the discovery of someone who tried to commit suicide (the blue trains lines are a metaphor for the veins pumping blood out of the body), and reevaluating our own sense of mortality through that image of someone's attempt to die. Just like the veins pump heart through the body, this tracks pumps with energy and courage, it's the band saying "we're alive, and we are going to take a major risk".

After this effort, Mount Kimbie take that step out of the zone of "DJs music", their music feels bold and even organic, now we can say that it's a band that we would be intrigued to see live (rather than expecting them to be masters of the "push play"), because the elements and sound that they integrate in this new album give them the full complexity that they needed to link a full sound of their own to their name.