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These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Diphenyl Oxalate”, a track named for the chemical used in glowsticks, hits like a black metal rave, and it’s one of a few places where Frost seems to be creating dance music, or at least music that makes your innards move. Mosse and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, in turn, made a series of grainy films—explosions, volcanoes, bullets through bodies—as a rollout to A U R O R A, as well as the album’s cover art).

From a distance, a title like A U R O R A feels almost counterintuitive when applied to an album that feels so dangerous. Just last year we had Tim Hecker’s claustrophobic Virgins and Gesaffelstein’s warped take on American hip-hop on Aleph. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. The cold on this CD (though probably falsely felt a bit because of his surname being Frost) permeates the fact that it's a summertime in Florida, and I don't think I've ever been so eager for an album of this kind to do to me what it does.It should be noted that while plunging into opening track “Flex” I was on a flight from Houston to Dallas and, as the plane was taking off, it was hard to tell what sounds came from Frost and what sounds came from the plane. With the tone, implacable and steadfast, confidently set on “Flex”, a barrage of sharp frequencies, lacerated melodies and clambering metallic rhythms propel its follow-up, “Nolan”, a six-minute barrage that masterfully marries beauteous sonic disfigurement with unwavering caustic noise.

In particular this gives the whole record a tremendous feeling of scale, the gargantuan echo of the production casting earlier, more minimalist and claustrophobic excursions into sharp relief. Nothing more than a brief burst of energy and light, it comes and goes violently, mirroring those same short but energetic lives in its crushing noise and jarring flickers of piercing drone. But like its namesake — Borealis or Australis — it’s breathtaking in its representation of something so destructive and terrifying. Firmly rooted in Dark Ambient, Noise and Industrial musics, past albums like By The Throat and Theory Of Machines have all been punishing but breathtaking affairs, focusing strongly on both physical pain and psychological trauma.Quizzed about his favourite player, he opted for Blake Griffin, a 6ft10 powerhouse renowned for his extraordinary athleticism and savage, crushing slam dunks. Plenty of other noise artists make 'unlistenable' drone that assaults the senses and calms/energizes you but some of the production on this (really harsh, scratchy bits of EQd noise, painful white noise etc. A U R O R A, Ben Frost’s fourth album and first to be released on Mute, is — if anything — even more intense than the menacing masterpiece that preceded it. YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

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