As King Krule continues to avoid releasing his eagerly anticipated debut album, we’ll certainly settle for songs like the latest Mount Kimbie single. A slow-burner with some serious bite , “You Took Your Time” is yet another striking example of how this little red-haired teenage–or did he turn 20 finally?–Londoner can pass for a grizzled old gangster on record. Starting with the blunt lines “Now did you see me?/ I killed a man/ They all stayed down/ But he chose to stand,” Archy Marshall wraps his street-seasoned poetry around Mount Kimbie’s bubble-gun beats tightly, bringing a level of grit to a LP that feels like more of a living room listen. (This is a good thing; we expected an actual album from the duo, not a collection of post-dubstep bangers.)
Check out “You Took Your Time” below, and look out for the rest of Cold Spring Fault Less Youth on May 28th through Warp…
