Andy Stott

Andy Stott is a British electronic musician and producer, living in Manchester.

Biography Stott's debut album was Merciless (2006), followed by Unknown Exception in 2008. The EP Passed Me By (2011) marked a significant change in his sound; it has none of the elements of his previous dub techno release, opting for a much more bass-heavy sound. He then released the EP We Stay Together (2011). The album Luxury Problems was released in 2012. Luxury Problems received top album awards from both Resident Advisor and Pitchfork.

Stott has undertaken several productions under the moniker Andrea and these works were released on Daphne, a sublabel of Modern Love. Most of this work is in association with Miles Whittaker (who releases music as MLZ, with Pendle Coven, and as one half of Demdike Stare) who used the moniker Millie in the recordings and were released as Millie & Andrea. In 2012, Stott collaborated with the Brooklyn duo The Hundred in the Hands remixing Keep It Low from their 2012 album, Red Night. In March 2014, Millie & Andrea released Drop the Vowels.

Under his real name, Stott also released Faith in Strangers (2014), Too Many Voices (2016), It Should Be Us (2019), and Never the Right Time (2021).

Artistry Stott analogises making music to a scientist creating compounds, by figuring out formulas that use studio gadgets and parts of other music. He never borrows inspiration from his personal experiences when he produces material. Tiny Mix Tapes writer Birkut analysed Stott's works employ neo-futuristic themes and are hard to label in specific genres because they are "shifting disfiguration of Detroit techno, grime, house, and industrial music." Stott's music contains a melodic structure that has been compared by multiple critics to Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance.

Since Luxury Problems, vocals from Stott's former piano teacher Alison Skidmore appear on his music,

An Electronic Beats review of Luxury Problems described its sounds as presenting "the beautifully decayed aura of concrete and chrome, halogen and grime—the soul of a heaving, monstrous city at twilight, equal (yet often struggling) parts fragile light and enclosing darkness." Reed Scott Reid's review of Luxury Problems for Tiny Mix Tapes analyse it "represents an apogee of scruffy elegance, curdled rhythms growling within the crumbling masonry of its bitworn shunt."

Personal life Stott is married, and has a son who was born in July in 2012.

Discography Solo albums

Collaborative albums Drop the Vowels (with Miles Whittaker, as Millie & Andrea; 2014)

EPs Replace (2005) Demon in the Attic (2005) The Nervous (2006) The Massacre (2007) Fear of Heights (2007) Bad Landing (2008) Passed Me By (2011) We Stay Together (2011) It Should Be Us (2019)

Singles As Andy Stott "Ceramics" (2005) "Choke" / "For the Love" (2006) "Merciless" (2006) "Handle with Care" / "See in Me" (2007) "Hostile" (2007) "Brief Encounter" / "Dripping" (2009) "Tell Me Anything" / "Love Nothing" (2010) "Anytime Soon" (2013) "Out (Version)" / "Love (Version)" (2014)

As Millie & Andrea "Black Hammer" / "Gunshot (Stripped)" (2008) "Spectral Source" / "Ever Since You Came Down" (2009) "Temper Tantrum" / "Vigilance" (2009)

As Andrea "You Still Got Me" / "Got to Forget" (2010) "Retail Juke" / "Write Off" (2010)

Remixes Holy Other — "Know Where (Andy Stott Remix)" (2011) Hatti Vatti — "Great (Andy Stott Remix)" (2011) The Hundred in the Hands — "Keep It Low (Andy Stott Remix)" (2012) Blondes — "Pleasure (Andy Stott Remix)" (2012) False Idols — "Valentine (Andy Stott Remix)" (2013) Batillus — "Concrete (Andy Stott Remix)" (2013) Panda Bear — "Boys Latin (Andy Stott Remix)" (2015) Martin Gore — "Europa Hymn (Andy Stott Remix)" (2015)