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May 30, 2013What a sublime hush of an album. Your iPhone dreams about this music.
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Dec 14, 2012Never 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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UncutDec 11, 2012Luxury 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, 2012The 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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The WireDec 7, 2012It 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 12, 2012You 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 9, 2012As 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 7, 2012In its own less-alien way, Luxury Problems is just as brilliant as what preceded it.
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Nov 6, 2012Luxury Problems is a highly impressive full-length album of dark, atmospheric techno.
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Nov 6, 2012Dark, hypnotic, abstract and remarkably sexy.
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Nov 2, 2012Luxury 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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Nov 2, 2012Though 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 31, 2012Stott doesn't just produce these tracks, he haunts their halls.
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Oct 30, 2012A memorable, impermanent joy, it restores, rather than disturbs, the equilibrium--a feat of engineering in the service of artistry.
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Oct 30, 2012Luxury 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, 2012It's the headphones album of the year from a producer with a long history who has come into his own.
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Oct 29, 2012For 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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Oct 29, 2012As 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, 2012It's a thoughtful and meditative affair with a meaningful and felt collaboration at its core.
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Oct 29, 2012It 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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 50 out of 53
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Mixed: 0 out of 53
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Negative: 3 out of 53
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