Hot Ticket of the Month: Mount Kimbie

Sometimes The Skinny likes to think back to simpler days; days when ‘dance’, ‘classical’, ‘pop' and 'rock’ were the only genres worth mentioning; days when the man who decides what section an album goes into on the racks at HMV didn’t have to neck cooking sherry in the toilets just to get through the day.

Mount Kimbie, with their post-UK funky ambient-pop mandate firmly established, are the type of genre-hoppers that make this poor chap (let’s call him Ken) hate his life even more – but for the rest of us, their supple blend of hyper-edited funk and orgasmic sub-bass with live guitars and drums is manna from heaven. Sorry Ken. [Mark Shukla]