Ben Frost – A U R O R A (Mute)

Ben Frost – A U R O R A (Mute)

Ben Frost makes music that sounds like cataclysmic natural phenomena, but A U R O R A throws that same chaos into outer space. To put it another way, he’s made the heaviest and most combustive electronic album of the year — dance music that features a drummer from Swans. Frost himself described it best, though: “It should just feel like being in a fucking particular accelerator. I wanted it to feel like something being pulled apart. Just massive, massive amounts of energy condensed to a point, just fucking exploding and radiating out towards you. That’s what I want. It should feel like you’re being drenched, showered in photons.” –Miles [LISTEN]