Kick it off with my most impressive find of this half-year: contemplative dubstep courtesy of Mount Kimbie. Throw out thunderous compensatory wobble, bust up the formula my friends refer to as “womp-tinkle” (womping bass, tinkling lead, repeat), and what you’ve got is damn near the salvation of a homogenized subgenre of electronic music. Word of warning: listening to Mount Kimbie on trains, buses and other transitory devices which lend themselves easily to allegorical clout may cause you to internally muse on your life, etc., for the rest of the ride. I am not responsible for intensifying your bouts of quiet meditation, whether emotional or intellectual or sorrowful or epiphanous.
A grab from the softer of their two EPs, Maybes, William, Vertical & Taps: