What did Andy Stott strip away to make Late Loop?
Andy Stott has broken five years of studio silence, and he did it by taking almost everything off the table. Andy Stott's new album, Late Loop, lands October 30 on Modern Love, his first full length since 2021's Never the Right Time. For a producer whose reputation rests on suffocating low end and industrial haze, the follow up is a deliberate act of restraint: no basslines, no reverb, and effects limited to a single delay unit. The goal, as the album has been framed, was to reset his process and land on songs rather than pure texture, an unusual discipline for someone who has spent over a decade thickening tracks rather than thinning them.
The eight track record splits evenly between two vocalists across its runtime, a structure that puts voice, not low end, at the center of the record for the first time in Stott's catalogue.
Who's singing on Late Loop?
Alison Skidmore, Stott's former piano teacher turned longtime vocal foil, has voiced his records since 2012's Luxury Problems and 2014's Faith in Strangers; she returns here on "Cold Welcome," "Sunday Fast," "2024-2" and the title track. The other four songs, including lead single "Something in Mind," introduce Elaine Howley, a new name in Stott's discography. Her spotlight track leans into foggy trip-hop and downtempo textures, closer to a hushed torch song than anything on Faith in Strangers.
The video, directed by Kitty Handley, matches the track's murk: understated, low lit, built around Howley rather than Stott's usual machinery.
What comes next for Stott?
Late Loop's artwork uses photography by Myriam Boulos, and the album is up for pre-order now. Stott takes the record on the road before it even lands: Club Space in Miami on October 2, a North Carolina date on October 3, then Cite du Design in Saint-Etienne on November 6, the first dates confirmed since the album's announcement.
