Andy Stott ‎– Merciless

Album listened to and tested in its entirety / background noise somewhere quiet moments, ask for audio-video / it has some very superficial lines on the vinyl.

Merciless’ sits on the bleeding edge of a contradiction, and does it calmly – with the serenity of a scalpel. The paradox at hand is that at a time in techno where length, modulation and difference/repetition are in the ascendant, Andy Stott has redefined techno with an album that appears to violate its contemporary compositional principle: a near-perfect techno LP that moves faster than ghosts.

It’s a trick the young Brit must have learned sharing a studio space (and an electrobrain, by the sounds of it) with Modern Love’s other main man Claro Intelecto. In fact, ‘Merciless’ is the direct progeny of Claro’s sound world, sunk in shadows and drawing strength from the exquisite beauty of cold sounds and the deadscapes they evoke.

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