British outfit Mount Kimbie has announced their fourth studio album The Sunset Violent, releasing via Warp on April 5th. To coincide with the announcement, the band also shares a brand new single “Fishbrain” with an accompanying video directed by Tegen Williams who the band worked with previously on the video for “Blue Train Lanes (ft. King Krule).” Inspired by the charcoal animations of South African artist William Kentridge, the video centers around a dystopian tale of an underground fish-scale textile factory and the mundane repetitive nature of the toil of everyday life and the labor of industry. Pre-order tickets for Mount Kimbie’s upcoming world tour HERE.
The Sunset Violent picks up where Mount Kimbie’s last studio album, 2017’s Love What Survivesleft off, marrying modern indie, shoegaze and electronica seamlessly into another highly unique and forward-thinking LP from one of London’s most seminal contemporary bands. The album was written in California’s Yucca Valley, a scant Western town with a history of alleged UFO sightings before being finished in London. The desert’s surrealistic, auburn-tinged tones and sparse Americana landscape can be heard across each of the album’s nine tracks, marrying perfectly with the album’s abstract storytelling and cutting-edge songwriting to create another classic Mount Kimbie record.
Upcoming Live Dates
4/27 – Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark X
4/28 – Huxleys, Berlin, Germany X
4/29 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands X
4/30 – La Cigale, Paris, France X
5/2 – Les Nuits Botanique @ Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
5/3 – Roundhouse, London, England Y
5/4 – New Century, Manchester, England Y
5/5 – QMU, Glasgow, Scotland Y
5/17 – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, USA Z
5/18 – El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, USA Z
5/21 – Perplexiplex at Convergence Station, Denver, USA Z
5/23 – Parish, Austin, USA Z
5/25 – Lincoln Hall, Chicago, USA Z
5/28 – Axis, Toronto, Canada Z
5/29 – Webster Hall, New York City, USA Z
Upcoming Festival Dates
May 26 – Movement Festival, Detroit, USA
May 31 – Primavera, Spain
Aug 17 – We Out Here, UK
Support from:
X: George Riley
Y: Nabihah Iqbal
Z: Chanel Beads
