Mount Kimbie - Made To Stray

What this video is

Released in May 2013 as a single from Mount Kimbie's second album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp Records), 'Made To Stray' arrived at a pivotal moment when UK post-dubstep was maturing beyond its club-music roots into introspective art-electronic territory. The video exemplifies an early-2010s trend of commissioning visual artists — rather than conventional video directors — to create music videos as pure…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark example of the post-dubstep / UK experimental electronic genre's use of abstract, non-performance music video as an artistic extension of record-cover design philosophy. The Podhajsky–Mount Kimbie collaboration demonstrates the era's blurring of music video, album art, and…

The director

Grammy-nominated Australian multidisciplinary visual artist, graphic designer, and creative director born in Byron Bay, New South Wales. Known for psychedelic, nature-informed imagery connecting organic systems with digital abstraction. Long-term…