ANDY STOTT
andy stott - Brief Encounter / Drippin
First new twelve from Andy Stott in over a year, and it's a fuck*in goodun. "Brief Encounter" on the A-side is a spacious slowhouse variation oozing spring vibes and sunken keys underpinned by that signature, colossal low-end padding. There's an almost Balearic influence in there somewhere, a melodic core that lives in the same universe as the Art of Noise's masterpiece "Moments in Love" - all melancholy and nostalgia, sunset styles. Over on the flipside "Drippin" is a rugged, demented beast that oddly keeps the same melodic, albeit woozy, element at its core. Misshapen synths get pushed high up in the mix over squashed percussion and mangled samples, vast bass weight keeping the whole thing from creasing in on itself. Hard to know where to place this music, think of Zomby, Martyn and New World Aquarium larging it up poolside with a severe case of sunstroke and bourbon playing tricks on their minds, somehow getting it together to ooze out pure auditory filth from their boxes... and it just kills us every time. Massive.
