Mount Kimbie's 'The Sunset Violent' presents unnerving vignettes of intimacy-hungry characters fighting loneliness and isolation.
It’s a remarkably confounding experience when nature’s beauty becomes warped by the context of personal life tragedies. , illustrates a couple drowning in their relationship and trying to find safe, shallow water while on vacation at a fictional beach resort somewhere in China. “I watch the sunset violent,” Andrea Balency-Béarn sings calmly. “Lose it all in silence / Dig a hole in my mind / There’s something on this island / That’s keeping me off-balance.
Natural beauty becomes tarnished by heartbreak, depression, and identity crises. Buzzy synths begin anxiously reserved, but then soon clash against intense, bloody piano and blown-out guitars. Things get blurry; the waves crash. Mount Kimbie use nature’s routine to compound saturnine emotions. bringing in more creative minds to clarify their sound. On its follow-up, they solidified that expansion as a loose post-punk group with newly minted full-time members Balency-Béarn and Marc Pell.
“I feel connection outside,” goes one line on “Fishbrain.” The outside is bedlam: “The state’s on fire / The freeways, they sway and collapse / People hide, clouds cry.” Mount Kimbie are letting their songs smolder into life’s discontent. That uncomfortable tension is
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