Mount Kimbie - Blood and Form

What this video is

Released in April 2013 as a pre-album single ahead of Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp Records, 27 May 2013), 'Blood and Form' arrived during Mount Kimbie's critical transition from purely instrumental post-dubstep production toward a more song-oriented, vocally driven indie-electronic hybrid. The track and video occupy a moment when UK electronic music's post-dubstep vanguard — centred around artists on Warp,…

Why it matters

Represents a defining artifact of early-2010s UK post-dubstep's maturation into art-electronic songcraft. Mount Kimbie's move to Warp and the Cold Spring Fault Less Youth campaign marked a genre inflection point where experimental electronic production absorbed indie rock song structures, a shift…