Andy Stott-Luxury Problems-CD-FLAC-2012-FORSAKEN
Description :
Artist : Andy Stott
Album : Luxury Problems
Label : Modern Love Records
Genre : Electronic
Source : CD
Street Date : 2012-11-06
Quality : 804 kbps 44.1kHz 2 channels
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 293.84 MB
Time : 48:44 min
Url : http:www.amazon.comLuxury-Problems-Andy-Stott
dpB009DB7UX2
1. Numb 6:30
2. Lost and found 6:06
3. Sleepless 5:49
4. Hatch the plan 8:39
5. Expecting 7:55
6. Luxury problems 5:03
7. Up the box 5:00
8. Leaving 3:42
Following on from a pair of extended players released in 2011
(Passed Me ByWe Stay Together) Andy Stott returns to Modern Love
with Luxury Problems an eight-track album of new material
recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album
feature the voice of Alison Skidmore Andy’s one-time piano
teacher whom he hadn’t seen since he was a teenager back in 1996
There was no grand gesture in mind it just sort of happened
but after almost a year of studio work the result is really
quite unlike anything you’ll have heard from him before. Numb
opens the album with Alison’s voice; layered and looped but
essentially left bare and exposed tumbling into a dense shuffle
sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade but more fucked
Lost and Found follows and deploys a growling rave bass line
and a disturbed vocal the beat assembling itself around a
squashed Linndrum like a submerged PrinceCameo production
haunted and impenetrable but full of funk. Sleepless started
life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to
Stott’s intense rhythmic shifts. It’s a sound that’s been
imitated countless times since the release of Passed Me By here
re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. Hatch
the Plan ends the first half of the album with some heavily
treated location recordings and a low-end grind that probably
doesn’t quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow
it’s just a beautifully inverted pop song. The second half
opens with Expecting the most recognizably Stott moment on
the album: a wrecked deliriously knocked-out 44 shuffle
deployed at half-speed; those heavy kick drums sucking in
everything around them. Luxury Problems offers up the album’s
most quietly euphoric moment; conventional arrangements and drum
loops are disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you
know: it’s straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged
somehow all at once. Up the Box fucks with the narrative and
goes somewhere else entirely an extended intro that seems to
build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a
slowed-down amen edit creating a kind of narcotic jungle variant
that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think
it’s going to go off before Leaving finishes the album with an
almost unbearably-beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a
final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an
instant. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Air Studios. Deluxe
6-panel digifile CD
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