It's a wild, year-end-list busting week out here for new music, with Clams, Stott, and twigs all dropping brilliant new records, but make sure you don't sleep on Vegyn's incredible new one Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds. Check the new Joshua Gordon-directed video for "Debold" + stream the whole record below:
Andy Stott comes through with a hazy, grinding, slow-motion burner for the club, taken from his just-announced new double EP It Should Be Us. According to Stott's label Modern Love, "There’ll be a new Andy Stott album in 2020, but in the meantime...
Andy Stott is by far my greatest inspiration and this video to me is so amazing. The unexpected pairing of somewhat cliche portraits of people in New York (and a dancer) with the ethereal sound of Andy works like a match made in heaven! What was so surprising to me is that I was already listening to this track during my commutes in NYC before even seeing the video...
Manchester producer Andy Stott returns this spring with new LP Too Many Voices, the follow-up to 2014's excellent Faith in Strangers. The press release cites legendary Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra as an inspiration for this one (coincidentally, YMO was also a major influence on the incredible new Jessy Lanza record), and hypnotic lead single "Butterflies" glows with a lighter to
Shout out to Son Raw over at Passion of the Weiss for the heads up on Israeli dancehall MC Miss Red, who just dropped her unbelievably dope, self-released debut mixtape, produced by The Bug and featuring riddims from Andy Stott, Evian Christ, and more. Check out the NSFW video for the thick-as-fuck title track below + download the whole tape for free here.
Adult Swim's excellent 2013 Singles Program -- which has already produced great new tracks from the likes of Autre Ne Veut, Madlib and Freddie Gibbs, Captain Murphy + more, with new Miguel and Lil B still to come -- gets a massive, sprawling new entry from Manchester producer Andy Stott...