A U R O R A
by Ben Frost
Josh A.H.
Josh A.H.
Th s w s th on th t L ck d m int B n Fr st. Eve yth ng cl ck d. Everything clicked.
Favorite track: Venter.
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Densely bright, rhythmically inventive. The hostility in this music is incredible. It’s cool as hell all the way through.
Favorite track: Secant.
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Very immersive album. It feels like an epic space travel through jupiter.
Favorite track: Nolan.
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift cardDownload available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumIn celebration of its 10th anniversary, renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost releases a limited edition red vinyl of his studio album, A U R O R A, on Mute.
Limited to just 400 copies in North America, this vinyl edition includes alternative artwork and an exclusive download of his blistering 2014 live performance at Berlin’s Berghain.
A U R O R A, which has lost none of its visceral potency in the intervening years, received universal acclaim and featured in Albums of the Year lists at NPR, Rolling Stone, Clash, Crack, FACT, Stereogum, and more.
Performed by Frost along with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily, and Thor Harris (ex-Swans) and largely written in Eastern DR Congo, the album is wholly absent of guitar, piano, string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, offering a defiantly synthetic world
of fiercely shaped sounds and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.
Frost is known for his groundbreaking contributions to composition, production, sound art, and direction over the past 15 years. These include soundtracks for film and TV shows such as Fortitude, Raised by Wolves, and Netflix series Dark and 1899, as well as opera creations including The Wasp Factory and The Murder of Halit Yozgat (which was performed at London’s Royal Opera House and Hannover’s Staatsoper). In 2024, he released his first studio album in six years, titled Scope Neglect, an experimental, genre-shifting record forged from Frost’s admiration for metal with the mindful removal of its conventional attributes.
Includes unlimited streaming of A U R O R A via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.... moreships out within 5 daysPurchasable with gift card$35.98 USD
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumOrders ship from the U.S.
Includes unlimited streaming of A U R O R A via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 5 daysPurchasable with gift card$14.98 USD
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Flex,
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Nolan
06:57
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The Teeth Behind Kisses
03:12
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Secant
04:55
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Diphenyl Oxalate
01:31
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Venter
06:45
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No Sorrowing
04:27
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Sola Fide
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A U R O R A is Ben Frost’s highly anticipated fifth solo release, his first since the widely acclaimed 2009 album BY THE THROAT.
A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force.
This is no pristine vision of digital music, it is a filthy, uncivilized offering of interrupted future time where emergency flares illuminate ruined nightclubs and the faith of the dancefloor rests in a diesel-powered generator spewing forth its own extinction, eating rancid fuel so loudly it threatens to overrun the very music it is powering.
A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force.
This is no pristine vision of digital music, it is a filthy, uncivilized offering of interrupted future time where emergency flares illuminate ruined nightclubs and the faith of the dancefloor rests in a diesel-powered generator spewing forth its own extinction, eating rancid fuel so loudly it threatens to overrun the very music it is powering.
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released May 26, 2014
Performed by Ben Frost with Shahzad Ismaily, Greg Fox and Thor Harris.
Production Executed by Ben Frost, Paul Corley, Valgeir Sigurðsson and Daniel Rejmer.
Additional Sound Designs and Production by Lawrence English and Tim Hecker.
Recorded between 2011 and 2013 in Eastern DR Congo, EMPAC New York and Reykjavík by Daniel Rejmer, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Paul Corley, Paul Evans and Ben Frost.
Assisted by Alexander Overington, Jonathan Kawchuk, Emanuele Porcinai and Adrian Libeyre Ramirez.
Mixed, Mastered and laid to rest by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Ben Frost at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík Iceland in December 2013.
Additional mixing by Daniel Rejmer.
Performed by Ben Frost with Shahzad Ismaily, Greg Fox and Thor Harris.
Production Executed by Ben Frost, Paul Corley, Valgeir Sigurðsson and Daniel Rejmer.
Additional Sound Designs and Production by Lawrence English and Tim Hecker.
Recorded between 2011 and 2013 in Eastern DR Congo, EMPAC New York and Reykjavík by Daniel Rejmer, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Paul Corley, Paul Evans and Ben Frost.
Assisted by Alexander Overington, Jonathan Kawchuk, Emanuele Porcinai and Adrian Libeyre Ramirez.
Mixed, Mastered and laid to rest by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Ben Frost at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík Iceland in December 2013.
Additional mixing by Daniel Rejmer.
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Ben Frost
The music of Ben Frost is about contrast; influenced as much by Classical Minimalism as by Punk Rock and Metal, Frost's throbbing guitar-based textures emerge from nothing and slowly coalesce into huge, forbidding forms that often eschew conventional structures in favor of the inevitable unfoldings of vast mechanical systems. ... more
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