We’re listening to ANDY STOTT “PASSED ME BY”
We sat in the plane to Germany last weekend trading the headphones on Andy Stott’s “Passed Me By”. It’s grim and cold, heaving slow paced with low frequencies that suck in and inhale you. On ‘North To South’ the slow kicks beat like blood vessels while shards of distorted electronics slam in and out landing on crystalline pads. At these tempos, and with these atmospherics, it’s a kind of space with roots in dub played against the more ominous side of classic house.
Snare rolls made out of caged frequencies rattling, stark electronic buzzing in warbled sheets, disembodied vocals inverted, inhuman and vaporous played like samples which on “Dark Details” become the pitched down voice of doom, all of this might seem like it’s a record of brutal dreariness but it’s beautiful in it’s way and all that darkness plays against the sensual textures of the universe he’s creating. The final gasp of the title track is the most serene of these, a murderous night spent wandering under the industrial buzz of power-lines coming to end in gentle intoxication.
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