Mount Kimbie - Lie Near

What this video is

Released in May 2013 as part of Mount Kimbie's second album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth on Warp Records, 'Lie Near' belongs to a pivotal transitional moment in UK underground electronic music. The duo had moved from Hotflush Recordings to Warp and shifted from purely instrumental post-dubstep toward a more analogue, vocally present, and compositionally exploratory sound. The album received a Metacritic score of 81…

Why it matters

Represents the post-dubstep genre's 2013 critical apex, when UK electronic duos on prestige labels were producing work that crossed into art music reception contexts. The video format — single-shot, non-performance, maximally austere — prefigures the later dominance of visualiser and single-image…