For me, itвЂ™s the stronger record, plunging deeper into the weird and the grotty, paying even less heed to the dancefloor than its predecessor, while also packing more funk. Now comes a new double-pack, We Stay Together, a sequel to Passed Me By that explores similarly sludgy terrain. DonвЂ™t get me wrong вЂ“ Passed was a really strong set, bleak and uncompromising, if a little less compelling than some of the Actress and Kassem Mosse records it referenced вЂ“ but did it deserve all the unquestioning praise heaped upon it? Stott is a supremely gifted and rangy producer вЂ“ his first album, 2006вЂ™s Merciless, yolked together dubstep and techno at a time when most practitioners of the latter were in denial of the formerвЂ™s existence, while his steady output of 12вЂі and EPs over the last five years has brought us superlative club tracks that veer from the brutal (вЂHostileвЂ™) to the heart-stoppingly romantic (вЂBrief EncounterвЂ™) вЂ“ but one canвЂ™t help but feel the huge acclaim afforded Passed Me By had as much to do with the sorry state of the contemporary house/techno landscape as it did with the albumвЂ™s undeniable merits. ThatвЂ™s what I used to think of Andy Stott, until the release of his Passed Me By LP this year saw him suddenly strewn with confetti and championed as a house music visionary, the belle of the bloody ball. Available on: Modern Love 2Г—12вЂі / digitalДЄlways the bridesmaid, never the bride.

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