Tiny Listens #12 (Andy Stott - Love Nothing)
Andy Stott - Love Nothing
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TINY LISTENS 0012 • May 5, 2024
Andy Stott - Love Nothing
Love Nothing—after over ten years from it’s release—remains one of my favourites and comes from an album (Passed Me By) that remains at the top of my lists.
Passed Me By signalled a switch in direction for Andy Stott. The sound became slower, lower, messier, overdriven and sludgy. A counterpoint to dance music’s usual uptempo, euphoric and adrenaline, this feels like loneliness and dread. (See: hauntology, Burial).
Love Nothing perfectly encapsulates this. A slow slightly distorted kick drum thud lurches the track along, a pitched down etheral vocal drops in from time to time, a substantial bass and hazy dub techno-ish chords and pads drift wrap the track in a blanket. The track feels like it’s always on the verge of winding down or falling apart.
Gloom never sounded so good.
Listen / buy:
Unfortunately Love Nothing wasn’t included on all versions of the release (like on Apple Music or Spotify), so you will have to track it down.
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