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Faith in Strangers
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Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings

  • Summary: The fourth full-length solo release from the Manchester-based electronic producer features Alison Skidmore on vocals.
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Faith in Strangers
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. The A.V. Club
    Nov 18, 2014
    91
    It’s an exciting step forward for an artist who could easily have been content to hang back.
  2. Resident Advisor
    Nov 17, 2014
    90
    The most fully formed and wholly unique record in his discography.
  3. Pretty Much Amazing
    Nov 25, 2014
    83
    Not dance music in any traditional sense of the world, Faith In Strangers has injected itself into a crowded conversation on originality alone.
  4. AllMusic
    Nov 17, 2014
    80
    Despite a radical switch from digital to analog gear, the album is as bleak and as bracing as Luxury Problems.
  5. PopMatters
    Nov 25, 2014
    80
    Faith in Strangers is pretty outstanding, an eclectic, innovative, and cohesive addition to the ambient canon. Yet for all their bold gestures, most of its tracks remain beholden to the genre’s tradition of layered open-endedness.
  6. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Nov 19, 2014
    80
    Faith In Strangers amplifies human interaction with the elements and the fractured nature of our relationship with them; this might not be the most joyful depiction, but it has been impeccably well documented here.
  7. Rolling Stone
    Nov 18, 2014
    60
    Andy Stott cooks down the abstract beauty of his 2012 LP Luxury Problems to a new minimalism.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. LeGod
    Dec 2, 2014
    9
    absolutely stunning album, contender for album of the year and should be in all the top lists for 2014 imo.

    it's a fantastic progression    absolutely stunning album, contender for album of the year and should be in all the top lists for 2014 imo.

    it's a fantastic progression from his very good last lp "luxury problems". on faith in strangers he has diversified his sound and taken it in different directions with amazing results.

    brooding, chilling, emotional and blissful.    … Expand
  2. mvl222
    Nov 22, 2014
    9
    The sounds are perfectly blended and layered in the Manchester producer's album. Absolute IDM perfection. Best tracks are Damage and Violence.The sounds are perfectly blended and layered in the Manchester producer's album. Absolute IDM perfection. Best tracks are Damage and Violence. One of the best IDM albums of the last 10 years.… Expand
  4. seventhseal
    Nov 30, 2014
    8
    This album is ambient candyfloss! What I mean by this is its there, OMG is it there yet it floats away if you let it out the bag. For me thisThis album is ambient candyfloss! What I mean by this is its there, OMG is it there yet it floats away if you let it out the bag. For me this is up there with one of the best albums of 2014.

    If you like jaunty strolls contained within the headspace of your cans whilst giving your chosen surroundings the most melancholy yet simultaneously enchanting pings n tings n things look now further.

    Highly recommended loveliness.    … Expand
  5. jotaeseche
    May 7, 2016
    8
    Andy Stott maintains what he has created in his previous album, Luxury Problems, but this time he focuses even more on ambient industrialAndy Stott maintains what he has created in his previous album, Luxury Problems, but this time he focuses even more on ambient industrial sounds and rhythms. Though fantastically produced, the record may seem a bit claustrophobic or excessively charged or oppressed at times to be fully enjoyed.… Expand
  6. privateskolim
    Jan 22, 2020
    7
    Przesłuchałem całą płytę Faith in strangers od Andy Stotta i albo mam wrażenie, że psychodela pod koniec wjeżdża za mocno i nie rozumiemPrzesłuchałem całą płytę Faith in strangers od Andy Stotta i albo mam wrażenie, że psychodela pod koniec wjeżdża za mocno i nie rozumiem totalnie tych dźwięków albo po prostu nie chciało mu się kończyć płyty i zsamplowal randomowe basy w pętli po 3-4 minuty. Totalny fav z płytki to kawałek Violence który jest jak brutalny, pełen pożądania seks z delikatną gra wstepna. Reszta płyty ogółem tak na fajnym poziomie, słuchana razem daje mi takie wrażenie, że dużo rzeczy było zaplanowanych ale dużo sampli i dźwięków było też randomowych. Fajnie się bawiłem przy słuchaniu jej i jeszcze kiedyś pewnie wrócę albo zabiore się za inne płyty bo z tego co widziałem na spoti to jest ich kilka… Expand
  7. spageopriya
    Dec 3, 2014
    6
    Faith In Strangers arrives two years on from Luxury Problems, an album that had "the inspired feeling of an artist truly finding his footing,"Faith In Strangers arrives two years on from Luxury Problems, an album that had "the inspired feeling of an artist truly finding his footing," according to a review by RA's Will Lynch.… Expand

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