Luxury Problems
- Andy Stott
- Band Name: Andy Stott
- Record Label: Modern Love
- Release Date: Nov 6, 2012
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Dec 14, 201290Never before has the producer been as sharp (or as murky) at the boards as he is here, seamlessly tuning long-winded drones with slavedriver clangs into hypnotic locked grooves.
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Nov 7, 201290In its own less-alien way, Luxury Problems is just as brilliant as what preceded it.
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Nov 6, 201290Luxury Problems is a highly impressive full-length album of dark, atmospheric techno.
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Nov 2, 201290Though he's had plenty of strong releases in the past, this one has the inspired feeling of an artist truly finding his footing--a breakthrough, in other words.
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Oct 30, 201290A memorable, impermanent joy, it restores, rather than disturbs, the equilibrium--a feat of engineering in the service of artistry.
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Oct 29, 201290It's a thoughtful and meditative affair with a meaningful and felt collaboration at its core.
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Oct 29, 201287It's the headphones album of the year from a producer with a long history who has come into his own.
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Dec 11, 201280Luxury Problems is distinguished by the piercing vocals of Stott's former piano teacher, Alison Skidmore; looped, layered and heavily reverbed, they coil elegantly around Stott's brutalist constructions. [Jan 2013, p.83]
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Dec 10, 201280The album is at its best when its space is utilized not to build additional patterns, but to simply frame the raw nature and intrinsic beauty of sound.
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Dec 7, 201280It manages to evoke both void and overload simultaneously, and feels by turns oppressively dense and light as a feather. [Dec 2012, p.74]
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Nov 9, 201280As the overwhelming bulk of Luxury Problems demonstrates, the producer might've learned how to marshal all the dark, weird stuff boiling inside him, but he's not about to relinquish it any time soon.
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Nov 2, 201280Luxury Problems plays like a logical continuation of this chapter of Stott's music--the sweet spot between fear, obstruction and the warm embrace of total sound immersion.
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Oct 31, 201280Stott doesn't just produce these tracks, he haunts their halls.
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Oct 30, 201280Luxury Problems may not be as unbelievably mysterious and engrossing as his pair of 2011 EPs, We Stay Together and Passed Me By, but his craft is just as sharp here, and the results just as worthy of intense, continuous listening.
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Oct 29, 201280For post-apocalyptic strains of electronic music, there's no one better at the moment than Andy Stott. Luxury Problems makes for one hell of a calling card.
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Nov 12, 201270You need several listens to get your head around it, to recognize the landmarks and figure out the proper speed of anticipation and delivery.
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Nov 6, 201270Dark, hypnotic, abstract and remarkably sexy.
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Oct 29, 201270As it is Luxury Problems is a shift in a new direction that's not quite bold enough to make the jump in full, but still loaded with incredible ideas.
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Oct 29, 201270It is certainly a gorgeous production, and tracks will possibly come across differently in a mix, even if it is not quite what many will have been expecting.