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That’s the feeling I know so well. Two tracks from Hotflush, the home of Scuba and Mount Kimbie…Dominic Maker and Kai Campos taken from the new LP Crooks & Lovers on 19th July”, Gilles Peterson talking on his show this week but it’s been a whole year since Peterson interviewed them first on his show when they released thier first EP.

So if your a fan of Mount Kimbie’s work on Foals’ ‘Spanish Sahara’ or The XX’s ‘Basic Space’ (now doubt getting them on the list of acts appearing at London Fields and on The xx tour - see below), this album might be a little tricky to get to grips with.

It’s a bit back to the old broken sound, glitchy house, hip hop beats and the general evolution of dubstep. And then theirs shades of Industrial and African roots all at the same time; perhaps this why Mount Kimbie are more the Peckham sound than Croydon?

‘Before I Move Off’ is like ‘Get Carter’ meets Steve Riech but you can see that it’s a far cry from bass wobblers. That said, ‘Blind Night Errand’ gets close whilst it’s a shame their version of Arthur Russell lasts less than a minute and a half (‘Adriatic’).

It’s not all instrumental tracks, ‘Mayor’ goes for the old helium trick, ‘Between Time’ is the distorted spoken word dub and ‘Carbonated’ has some female vocal to a curious backing of broken Chinese water torture and sleigh bells; now you see how emotional these guys ambient soundscapes are?

If you like your indie rock, the guitars on ‘Field’ are a bit of a surprise but at the moment my favourites are the longer dubby-ish tracks like ‘Ruby’ and ‘Ode To Bear’.

The label Hotflush has featured old and new dubsteppers like Shackleton, Loefah, Benga, Martyn as well as the nu-bred like Jazzsteppa and Joy Orbison (the latter’s single, ‘Hyph Mngo’ being one of last years’ biggest tunes) so they know how to catch a wave.

Even though you’ll be unsure whether to call Mount Kimbie/Crooks & Lovers dubstep, techno, minimal, downtempo, experimental, ambient or even something else, you will grow to love it - definitely for fans of James Blake and the like.

On a personal note, I’m still not sure about the cover photo; nobody is perfect I suppose.

Forthcoming dates:
JULY
22. Jul 2010 10 Days Off/ Ghent, BE
24. Jul 2010 Centre Pompidou/ Metz, FRANCE
31. Jul 2010 Field Day/ London, GB
AUGUST
13. Aug 2010 Recyclart/ Brussels, BE
14. Aug 2010 Satta Outside Festival/ LITHUANIA
21. Aug 2010 Strom Festival/ Copenhagen, DENMARK
26. Aug 20101 E-Werk/ Koln, GERMANY - the XX support
27. Aug 2010 Tonhalle/ Munich, GERMANY - the XX support
SEPTEMBER
10. Sep 2010 Bestival (date TBC)/ Isle of Wight, GB
18. Sep 2010 Numusic/ Oslo, NORWAY
OCTOBER
15. Oct 2010 Iceland Airwaves/ Airwaves Festival, ICELAND
24. Oct 2010 Unsound festival/ Krakow, POLAND

Reviewed: Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush Recordings) Cat. No. Release date: 19th July 2010
Tracklistings:
1 Tunnel Vision (1:50)
2 Would Know (3:17)
3 Before I Move Off (4:12)
4 Blind Night Errand (3:23)
5 Adriatic (1:28)
6 Carbonated (4:20)
7 Ruby (4:05)
8 Ode To Bear (4:02)
9 Field (3:05)
10 Mayor (4:02)
11 Between Time (1:54)

Links:
www.myspace.com/mountkimbie
hotflushrecordings.com
www.myspace.com/hotflushuk
Gilles Peterson:: 02 Jul 2010 02:00-04:00 BBC Radio 1 - Bibio and Mount Kimbie Interviewswww.bbc.co.uk
Mount Kimbie - ‘Serged’ (Hot Flush)
Mount Kimbie - ‘At Least’ (Hot Flush)
Mount Kimbie- ‘50 Mile View’ (Hot Flush)
Mount Kimbie - Maybes (Hot Flush)
Gilles Peterson:: 14 Jul 2010 02:00-04:00 BBC Radio 1 - Loads of new tunes! www.bbc.co.uk
Mount Kimbie - Blind Night Errand (Hotflush)
Hotflush Sepulcure - Feeling That I Know So Well (Hotflush)