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“Merciless” by Andy Stott

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“Merciless” bears the fruit of almost a year’s worth of relentless compiling, at one point or another this album could have taken any number of possible shapes and flavours, though the spacious narrative and emotive pulse of the final selection seems destined to have occupied the tracklisting that’s infront of us now. Bar “choke” every track here is totally exclusive and previously unreleased, ranging from the suggestive 4/4 romance of album-opener “Florence” to the crushing percussive flutter of Detroit anthem Hi-Rise, to the harrowing simplicity of the title track itself. The end-note comes with a cover-version of Claro Intelecto’s classic “Peace of Mind” – a version so wildly inventive and unexpected that it has caused what can only be described as an email frenzy from those lucky enough to have had promo copies of this album in recent weeks. This is an album that will appeal to fans of everyone from Villalobos to Murcof, Lawrence to Carl Craig, Luciano to Erik Satie.