Andy Stott – Passed Me By

killer album, much better than the follow-up. one more word one more word one more word

Good music. Excellent pressing. Picked this up used and it plays like new. Shiny black vinyl. Sounds great with no surface noise, clicks, or pops.

For those that care: Modern Love does *not* include download codes with their vinyl records.

I just got a copy in black vinyl (so this should be the original release) and the pressing is perfect. No clicks, very low noise floor in general. Side D has some obviously intended noise that comes and goes. But I noticed this record is cut at a very high level, so I wouldn't be surprised if skips were a result of mistracking. Listened to it at home on an old Thorens with a line contact cartridge (AT 150 MLX), no problems at all.

side a of my copy skips so much its unlistenable, a few pops here and there on the rest of the lp as well. seems to be pretty consistently poor pressings from modern love, have a vatican shadow lp that pops and skips all over as well.

Non-fill on side B with accompanying noise; sides C, and D yielding scratchy sounds and pops where undesired (and not present in hi-res digital copy). Really disappointing, because this bass is great, really nice mastering marred by poor pressing.

Anyone else have this, or is this a one-off?

This release is so damn good. I can see why the demand continues.

Initial thoughts: If Akufen and Guillaume Berroyer had a child and it experimented with Detroit techno in the 90's this would be the evil progeny.

Andy getting low and slooowwwww on this latest. Not for the faint of heart. Probably can't even beat match these into a set because they're so slow. But man its good. Some dark, drab, skull rattling beats on here. I dont know what that tribal looking fellow is doing on the cover art. Actually I do know. He just finished listening to this album, felt inspired, and decided to kill every motherf*cker in the village with a knife while they were sleeping. Women and children first. Merciless.