Ben Frost

Ben Frost – Scope Neglect (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:49 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute

Not counting his extensive soundtrack work and field recordings, Scope Neglect is Ben Frost’s first studio full-length since 2017’s impressive The Centre Cannot Hold. Featuring Car Bomb guitarist Greg Kubacki and My Disco bassist Liam Andrews, the album deconstructs progressive metal, splintering riffs into jagged shards and reshaping them into suspenseful, cinematic pieces. Opener “Lamb Shift” consists of stark, compressed riffs and kick drums that sporadically stop and restart, leaving lengthy pauses of silence in between, gradually developing barely detectable electronic textures. This leads into “Chimera,” a more full-scope piece where the stop-start riffs collide into explosions, and the drama is elevated by the expansive sound design. “The River of Light and Radiation” has a jittery rhythmic framework, but it becomes digitally fragmented and stretched into a jarring buzz. This effect is repeated with such a frequency that one comes to expect it, but there are still other effects and noisy developments that throw the listener for a loop. “Turning the Prism” also has erratic, pounding riffs and bracing waves of distorted synths. The afterglow of the heavier tracks bleeds into the ambient drifting of the album’s few calm moments, like “_1993.” “Unreal in the Eyes of the Dead” has soft synth ebb-and-flow and a patient pulse that seems informed by Frost’s previous collaborations with Swans, except this piece ends before it can build up into an all-consuming maelstrom. Scope Neglect is a disorienting, sometimes deceptive work, but it’s thrilling in the way it dismantles genre tropes. – Paul Simpson

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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:38:49 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Électronique
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:38:49 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Electronic
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Ben Frost – Dark: Cycle 3 (Original Music from the Netflix Series) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:05 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © INVADA Records

In this third and final cycle Ben’s score evolves beyond the sharp string orchestrations of the first cycle and the percussive distortion of the second, towards a sea of disintegrated brass & woodwind arrangements and Eno-inspired ambience. Lakeshore Records will release the album in the Americas and Invada Records will release the album in the rest of the world digitally on July 24. The third and final season of Dark is airing now on Netflix.
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Ben Frost – All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:12 minutes | 322 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute

Extracted from and expanding upon the sessions of 2017’s The Centre Cannot Hold with new tracks and remixes, All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated continues Frost’s journey into more lively, angular forms of colossal sheets of noise. No longer defined by the tidal roar of 2009’s By The Throat, the Iceland-based Australian composer’s work now feels like the distorted hyper-colour beauty and dynamics of Tim Hecker’s recent work filtered through the earth-splitting amplification of Lawrence English’s last handful of years. (The topographical crunch of 2015’s The Peregrine reissue feels like a particular touchstone.)

Self Portrait In Ultramarine feels almost baroque in its cascading sequences — both hazily cinematic and thunderously Teutonic. Where Frost’s work has always been powerful, All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated’s experiments also feel lithe, giddy and colourful. It’s not just about volume, texture and mood but novelty and thrill. An adventurous, enthusiastic mood permeates the record’s undercurrent of drones and distortion.

The truly fascinating experiments lie in the re-imaginings from Alva Noto and Steve Albini. Albini’s take on Meg Ryan Eyez, in particular, is surprisingly clean and evocative. But, really, the whole EP is another great piece of work from one of Australia’s finest exports.
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