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Marking 10 years since he set off down his path of dour, slow-motion techno, the Manchester musician returns to his familiar palette of ashen moods and richly textured electronics.
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Never the Right Time â Andy StottVia SoundCloud
A decade ago, the Manchester-based electronic musician Andy Stott extinguished the dub-techno torch heâd been carrying for Basic Channel and plunged into some lightless place where all the usual values got switched around. From that murk, he retrieved a pair of acclaimed short albums,
We Stay Together, which set his course for the next 10 years. What had been fast would be slow, what had been trim would be mussed, and what had been roomy would be cramped. Steep slopes were leveled flat, perpendicular lines knocked out of plumb. His affable name now seems like an accidental vestige of this transformation. Itâs easy to think of an Andre making this spooky, severe music, maybe even an Andrewâbut an