Mount Kimbie - Marilyn ft. Micachu

What this video is

Released on 10 May 2017 as the second pre-album single from Mount Kimbie's third LP Love What Survives (Warp Records, September 2017), 'Marilyn' represents a key moment in the band's evolution from electronic instrumental duo toward a guest-vocalist-driven art-pop mode. The collaboration with Mica Levi (Micachu) — an Oscar-nominated film composer and experimental musician — reflects the cross-disciplinary creative…

Why it matters

A definitive artifact of mid-2010s UK post-dubstep art-pop, documenting the genre's maturation from beatmaker instrumentalism into vocalist-led songwriting. The track exemplifies Warp Records' crossover strategy pairing electronic producers with avant-garde composer-vocalists, and stands as an…

The director

Mark Lebon is a London-born photographer and filmmaker (b. 1957) who rose to prominence in the 1980s as a key contributor to the Buffalo aesthetic, headed by stylist Ray Petri. He studied at West Surrey College of Art and Design and North East London…