Mount Kimbie, Dom Maker - f1 racer (feat. Kučka)

What this video is

Released September 27, 2022 as the lead single from Dom Maker's half of Mount Kimbie's split double album MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning (Warp Records), the video arrives at a moment when UK electronic artists were fracturing collaborative identities into discrete solo aesthetic statements. The track's Formula One velocity metaphor — evoking escapism and fantasy through speed — is mirrored in the video's…

Why it matters

Represents the mature phase of UK post-electronic R&B, where Mount Kimbie's foundational post-dubstep and ambient electronica vocabulary hybridises with R&B vocal performance (Kučka) and art-house visual practice. The video's analogue-digital tension is emblematic of 2022 experimental music video…

The director

Laragh McCann is a self-taught freelance director, photographer, and writer from Dublin, Ireland. Her films and visual work have been featured at institutions including IMMA and the Irish Film Institute, and her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, i-D,…