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| | artist: Ben Frost | |
| | album: Threshold Of Faith | |
| | label: Mute | |
| | cat num: 12MUTE559 | |
| | genre: Noise | |
| | year: 2017 | |
| | website: N/A | |
| | | |
| | rls date: 08.2017 | |
| | source: Vinyl | |
| | quality: VBRkbps / Joint Stereo | |
| | tracks: 07 | |
| | length: 27:03 | |
| | size: 46,39 MB | |
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| | A1 Threshold Of Faith 06:40 | |
| | A2 Eurydice's Heel (Hades) 03:14 | |
| | A3 Threshold Of Faith (Your Own Blood) 02:31 | |
| | B1 All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated 05:19 | |
| | (Albini Swing Version) | |
| | B2 The Beat Don't Die In Bingo Town 02:35 | |
| | B3 All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated 03:16 | |
| | (Lotic Remix) | |
| | B4 Mere Anarchy 03:28 | |
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| | > total playtime: 27:03 | |
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| | Threshold of Faith, the new EP from the Australian- | |
| | born, Iceland-based composer Ben Frost, opens with a | |
| | cheeky bit of studio debris. Before slamming you | |
| | with exquisitely rendered kick drums and buzzing, | |
| | synthetic avalanches, we hear something more | |
| | quotidian: an engineer (presumably Steve Albini, who | |
| | recorded Threshold), letting Frost know that "we're | |
| | rolling.' Like the four clicks from the drummer or a | |
| | count-in caught on a room mic, this bit of ephemera | |
| | is the type of thing one encounters on countless | |
| | rock records, often left in as a point of scrappy | |
| | pride. One does not expect it from Frost, though, an | |
| | artist whose reputation rests on his immaculate, | |
| | austere touch. | |
| | | |
| | It's an interesting moment - you might not assume this| |
| | music was even recorded in a studio, much less with | |
| | microphones. Frost's textures live on the cutting | |
| | edge of the digital, often overlapping with the | |
| | gargantuan palettes so popular in our post-Michael | |
| | Bay Hollywood. Taken at face value, Threshold sounds | |
| | like it could exist entirely in the computer, an | |
| | object expertly constructed in the endless world of | |
| | software automation. But when you consider his | |
| | obsession with the physicality of sound, its | |
| | presence, depth, and force, the pairing with Albini | |
| | makes sense. Both as an engineer and a musician, | |
| | Albini is an icon for a type of inscrutable purity, | |
| | as arresting as it is emotionally cooled. Ben Frost | |
| | fans here may nod their heads in recognition. | |
| | | |
| | Once the music begins, though, it's impossible to | |
| | discern, or even care, how it was made. Frost has a | |
| | knack for grabbing attention, and you can't ignore | |
| | the lurching assault of the opening title track, | |
| | which heaves, crumbles, and explodes with enough | |
| | bravado to soundtrack the apocalypse. I couldn't | |
| | help but be reminded of [this infamous Godzilla | |
| | trailer recut with a Wolf Eyes song; Frost would | |
| | sound great in a monster movie. But as the piece | |
| | unfolds, new layers emerge. Over six-and-a-half | |
| | minutes, "Threshold of Faith" descends into its own | |
| | storm, moving from heroic vistas into a garbled, | |
| | snow-blinded melee. Distant choral pads, a | |
| | glistening upper-register sheen, submerged piano, | |
| | and groaning harmonies all stack up into a geologic | |
| | crescendo that extends into infinity. "Eurydice's | |
| | Heel" continues this mood by trimming some layers | |
| | and opening up space. The recurring bass dives call | |
| | back to Johann Johannsson's soundtrack for Sicario, | |
| | while the cavernous drones on top could have been | |
| | made in collaboration with Godspeed You! Black | |
| | Emperor. | |
| | | |
| | Both that group and that soundtrack share with Frost | |
| | a tendency for bombast, however: a humorless view of | |
| | the world that risks veering into deflating self- | |
| | seriousness. Throughout Threshold, Frost continually | |
| | brushes against this barrier. Whether scrambled or | |
| | restrained, there's a preciousness and an egoism | |
| | here that's difficult to shake. As impressive as | |
| | Frost's music is, he seems always a bit too eager to | |
| | impress, a sure turn-off. It's less a matter of the | |
| | parts Frost writes, which are often lovely and/or | |
| | awesomely grand, and more in the way he frames them. | |
| | The atmosphere that this music breathes feels | |
| | finessed to the point of airlessness: The dulcimer | |
| | plucks of "Threshold of Faith (Your Own Blood)" | |
| | merge into a sustained mass that practically insists | |
| | on awe, while "All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated | |
| | - Albini Swing Version" bathes in high-end reverb | |
| | trails and pregnant pauses which feel strangely | |
| | unearned (the titles don't help). We hear exactly | |
| | who Ben Frost wants us to think he is but get | |
| | precious little view of the man behind the persona. | |
| | | |
| | This doesn't mean it's all for naught - "The Beat | |
| | Don't Die in Bingo Town" is a tasty 2:36 of | |
| | fluttering exhaust, the kind of beauty-in-decay | |
| | detritus that Arca expertly wove on Mutant. "Mere | |
| | Anarchy" uses wounded pitch bending and rich, simple | |
| | chords to close things out on a more open-ended | |
| | tone. Nonetheless, for all its hubbub, Threshold of | |
| | Faith feels oddly hollow, a work by hemmed in by its | |
| | own presumptions of importance. | |
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| | | |
| | -- pitchfork | |
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