Techno innovator Andy Stott has announced a new album: it’s called Never The Right Time and arrives on April 16 via Modern Love. We last heard from Stott in 2019 when he shared the double EP It Should Be Us, and he promised he’d be back shortly after with a new album. Well, he did have the album ready in early 2020 but some personal struggles sent him into isolation, during which time he found himself drawn to new sounds: slow horns, sibilance, delayed drums, wandering flutes. Those flights of fancy have now found their way into the new album.
The first song to be shared from the record is “The beginning”, which sees him re-team with Alison Skidmore, who made such a powerful impact on his breakthrough album Luxury Problems in 2012. Employing a more ethereal and weightless sound than we often associate with Stott, “The beginning” finds sky-searching synths pirouetting over a booming rhythm in mesmeric fashion. Skidmore arrives on the scene with her usual disembodied beauty, singing phrases whose meaning remains just out of reach. You feel you want to lean into “The beginning”, to get a better glimpse, and fall upwards into the song’s never-ending sky.
Andy Stott’s new album Never The Right Time arrives on April 16 via Modern Love. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
