The Right Moment

Andy Stott is a producer who has never sounded quite like anyone else. Covering unease, uncertainty and the unknown with a deceptive facade of the familiar, the Manchester-based creator specialises in the panic-attack soundtrack, pieces which, even at their most serene, still bristle with a fractious enthusiasm that’s hard to pin down.
In short, Stott doesn’t sound like anyone else precisely because his aural vision sounds so singularly wrong. His work is off-kilter, erratic, and unpredictable in all of the most startling ways. Stott’s tracks are baptised in a river of unrestrained distortion and acoustic artifacts in a manner which feels so unsustainable but sound so conceptually distinct; glass cannons that threaten to fall apart at any moment, but never do…