Luxury Problems

Alison Skidmore's choral voice moves through half-speed techno and extreme low end on Luxury Problems, making dread intimate as well as heavy. 'Numb' opens on her voice alone before the low end arrives, and 'Sleepless' is where the two stop being separate things. Andy Stott pushes the dubby, industrial-adjacent fringe of techno into a more emotionally exposed register, holding its physical pull.

The form dragged somewhere else entirely: slowed to a crawl, packed in tape mud, built around Alison Skidmore's voice. Stretches the definition and a decade of producers followed it there.