[2012] Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before.

Tracklist:
01 Numb
02 Lost And Found
03 Sleepless
04 Hatch The Plan
05 Expecting
06 Luxury Problems
07 Up The Box
08 Leaving


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[2012] Demdike Stare - Elemental [UPDATE]

As promised, Demdike Stare collect their 'Elemental' album to a double-disc edition, and as warned, it's a morphed beast, comprising alternate versions and additional material in bleakest post-industrial fashion. Arguably this is their finest work to date, the result of two heads realising their ambition without compromise and in a typically enigmatic, shadowy way. By sonic sleight of hand, the smoke and mirrors effect of the sound design is potently disorienting, suspending our disbelief with masterfully immersive results. Each new scene or "cue" is rendered with meticulous attention to detail and mise en scene as to enhance the album's labyrinthine effect. But, it's what isn't revealed that leaves most to the imagination, keeping listeners guessing 'til the bitter, and when rendered/blended with such expansive, textured nuance, there are dark corners and ghostly snags which only reveal themselves after repeated listens, collaring us like a movie you've watched for the umpteenth time only to notice something startlingly new that's been there all along...

Tracklist:
01 Untitled 3:53
02 New Use For Old Circuits 5:04
03 Mephisto's Lament 5:23
04 Kommunion (Alternate Version) 8:28
05 Unction (Alternate Version) 5:04
06 Mnemosyne 5:25
07 Shade 3:20
08 In The Wake Of Chronos (Alternate Version) 5:52
09 10th Floor Stairwell 3:47
10 Violetta 6:40
11 Metamorphosis 6:51
12 All This Is Ours (Sunrise) 7:16
13 Erosion Of Mediocrity 7:09
14 Nuance 7:41
15 Falling Off The Edge (Alternate Version) 10:24
16 Dauerlinie 5:38
17 Dasein 6:24
18 We Have Already Died 7:04
19 Ishmael's Intent 7:23



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[NEWS] Vatican Shadow - Ornamented Walls

The third Vatican Shadow album, Ornamented Walls, will arrive next week on Manchester's Modern Love label. The techno-leaning project from Dominick Fernow, the New York-based Hospital Productions label head perhaps best known for his noise material as Prurient, has produced a string of cassette releases encased in provocative artwork, with headline-referencing titles like Washington Buries Al Qaeda Leader At Sea. Ornamented Walls will be one of only a handful of releases on a label other than his own. The first side is culled from material recorded during rehearsals for the live mix of Operation Neptune Spear, a cassette released earlier this year, while the second side features six all new tracks.

Tracklist:
01. Operation Neptune Spear Part 1 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
02. Operation Neptune Spear Part 2 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
03. Operation Neptune Spear Part 3 (Live Mix Rehearsal)
04. Cairo Is A Haunted City (Mythic Chords)
05. Nightforce Scopes
06. Yemeni Telephone Number
07. India Has Just Tested A Nuclear Device
08. Church Of All Images (Church Of The NSA)
09. Boxes Were Wired To Batteries Then loaded Into A Brown Toyota Cargo Truck

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[NEWS] Andy Stott - Numb

Here’s the first track to be unveiled from probably our most anticipated record left to be released in 2012, Andy Stott’s forthcoming Luxury Problems, out next month on Modern Love. The record has been described as falling “somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more fucked,” and gorgeous/ghostly album-opener “Numb” hints at a devastatingly beautiful (and relatively accessible) evolution of the imposing, future-primitive grind of his incredible Passed Me By / We Stay Together EPs from last year, thanks in part to the haunting vocals from Stott’s childhood piano teacher Alison Skidmore.

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[2011] Andy Stott - We Stay Together [UPDATE]

'We Stay Together' is a brand new doublepack from Andy Stott, a companion piece of sorts to the radical inversions of the 'Passed Me By' EP released earlier this year. Its predecessor left many heads dazed upon impact - in the best possible sense - and these six tracks, produced in its wake, amp the pressure to throttling degrees.

Tracklist:
Submission 4:50
Posers 5:07
Bad Wires 7:21
We Stay Together (Part One) 6:36
Cherry Eye 7:32
Cracked 5:36


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[2011] Miles - Facets [EP] [UPDATE]

Miles is one half of Demdike Stare and Pendle Coven and has recorded in the past under the aliases Millie and MLZ. After almost 15 years writing music, this is the first release Miles is putting out under his own name and marks a turning point of sorts in his production style, or rather, in its sequencing. 'Facets' brings together different ends of his production style, unifying elements of the House and Techno he’s most commonly released as MLZ together with the more broken production signatures usually reserved for Millie and the darkened tribalism of Demdike Stare.

Tracklist:
01 Flawed 7:39
02 Lustre 6:40
03 Primer 8:12
04 On The Fly 5:40


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[2011] Andy Stott - Passed Me By

Emerging from a 12 month hiatus, Andy Stott enters a compelling new phase of evolution on 'Passed Me By'. Besides marking his most substantial output since debut album 'Merciless', these seven tracks signify a renewed, yet introverted vitality to his sound, inverting the energy of his Juke and Technoid hardcore excursions into something more brooding and subtly visceral. They're strident and sensual yet stoically retentive, folding in a wider palette of influences from Kassem Mosse to Arthur Russell, to Actress and James Ferraro, but ironically sounding more Andy than ever.

Tracklist:
Signature 0:37
New Ground 6:21
North To South 4:51
Intermittent 3:26
Dark Details 6:04
Execution 5:15
Passed Me By 6:54


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[2010] Demdike Stare - Voices of Dust [UPDATE]

Strictly limited copies of this third and final part in a trilogy of Demdike Stare albums for 2010. Spread over 50 minutes and featuring all new and exclusive material mastered and cut at dubplates and mastering in Berlin, featuring supremely righteous artwork by Andy Votel* "Voices of Dust" is the third and final part in Demdike Stare's trilogy of albums for 2010.

Tracklist:
01. Black Sun 2:29
02. Hashshashin Chant 6:20
03. Repository Of Light 11:22
04. Of Decay & Shadows 2:37
05. Rain & Shame 4:16
06. Desert Ascetic 4:35
07. Viento De Levante 7:16
08. Leptonic Matter 4:34
09. A Tale Of Sand 4:54


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