Mount Kimbie - Blue Train Lines (feat. King Krule)

What this video is

Released in July 2017 as the lead single from Mount Kimbie's third album Love What Survives (Warp Records), 'Blue Train Lines' represents a mature phase of UK electronic music in which post-dubstep producers increasingly engaged with conceptual art-world visual practices. The video's subject — Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi people of California, who died in 1916 — grounds the work in questions of cultural…

Why it matters

A landmark example of conceptual documentary-mode music video within UK electronic music, 'Blue Train Lines' situates itself at the intersection of post-dubstep, Krautrock minimalism, and south London post-punk. Its single-shot durational structure, near-desaturated archival palette, and…

The director

Raf Fellner (photographer, Goldsmiths University graduate) and Tegen Williams (painter, Camberwell College of Arts graduate) are London-based multidisciplinary artists who have collaborated since approximately 2012. Their joint practice blends photography,…