Mount Kimbie - Meter, Pale, Tone (Feat. King Krule)

What this video is

Released in mid-2013, this video accompanies one of two King Krule collaborations on Mount Kimbie's second album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp Records), a record that received a Metacritic score of 81 from 22 reviews indicating universal acclaim. The track represents a landmark pairing in UK underground music: Mount Kimbie's post-dubstep electronic production meeting King Krule's laconic South London vocal…

Why it matters

Meter, Pale, Tone is a canonical document of UK post-dubstep's maturation into art-electronic song-craft — a genre that Mount Kimbie helped inaugurate with Crooks & Lovers (2010). The track and its video epitomise the movement's 2013 peak: measured tempo, deep reverb, analogue warmth, and…