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9.1
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9.1 |
Bowlegs
Stott successfully manages to humanise his production aesthetic, but never dilutes the dark underbelly that his mashed innovations so perfectly document
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9.0
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9.0 |
Beats Per Minute
The 2011 EPs act as a sort of explorative testing ground, while Luxury Problems sets out to build something more sophisticated, emotionally complex, and definitive by expanding on many of the same tools and techniques
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9.0
48878
9.0 |
All Music
In its own less-alien way, Luxury Problems is just as brilliant as what preceded it
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9.0
49359
9.0 |
PopMatters
Even at its most gaseous, it’s fixed, deterministic, morbid, doomed, eschatological, scatological, and gorgeous
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8.7
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8.7 |
Pitchfork
The headphones album of the year
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Quietus
Kinks of light piercing the greyscale cover and a newfound clarity in production values letting in all manner of previously hidden delight
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8.4
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8.4 |
PlayGround
Luxury Problems, an autonomous and talented effort, also serves as the perfect finish to a trilogy in which Andy Stott turned techno around showing new and unexpected things can still be done
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
As deep, dark music goes, Luxury Problems is in a league of its own
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8.0
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8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Luxury Problems finds Stott continuing to dredge new colors from the sound of sub-bass. It's quite remarkable, like uncovering a three-dimensional direction in a fundamentally two-dimensional reality
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spin
This album — while lacking its predecessors' raw, expressive immediacy — is significantly more refined and multi-faceted
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8.0
48812
8.0 |
Uncut
Breakthrough album from unsung techno auteur. Print edition only
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7.0
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7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Luxury Problems is a shift in a new direction that’s not quite bold enough to make the jump in full, but still loaded with incredible ideas
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7.0
48211
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Dark, hypnotic, abstract and remarkably sexy
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