First Listen: Andy Stott, 'Faith In Strangers' — npr.org

Andy Stott's new album, Faith In Strangers, comes out Nov. 18. Courtesy of the artist hide caption Andy Stott's new album, Faith In Strangers, comes out Nov. 18. For the better part of the '00s, Manchester electronic producer Andy Stott shuffled through variations across the techno spectrum in numerous singles: tech-house, minimal, dub and more. But in between his 2006 debut and his 2011 EP We Stay Together, Stott's aesthetic (from the cover art to the tracks within) cohered into something far darker and gloomier. His beats slowed to a crawl and began to lumber, the atmosphere surrounding them foreboding; Stott's production shift was akin to a welterweight suddenly gaining 50 pounds of muscle and punching as a heavyweight.

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