A U R O R A

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Instead, it’s more in keeping with an environment that Frost describes as “in a constant flux of destruction and re-creation”. The Teeth Behind the Kisses is a ghost in the machine, silently lurking and threatening although it’s barely there. Top Tags Steven Soderbergh nicolas cage Bob Dylan jonathan demme David Bowie animal collective monthly mixtape criminally Martin Scorsese spike lee R. The anthemic ‘A Single Point Of Blinding Light’ is a case in point, its screaming trance loops, brutal percussion and thread of searing white noise bringing to the surface a latent horror, while ‘Venter’ is A U R O R A’s dramatic peak.

A U R O R A is Ben Frost’s first solo album since 2009’s By The Throat, and his most accomplished yet.I feel like Frost is getting soundscaping down to a science and honing his style, so where By the Throat was a bit rawer and messier, this one is more refined and streamlined. But like its namesake — Borealis or Australis — it’s breathtaking in its representation of something so destructive and terrifying. 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. It's a bit reminiscent of a soundtrack in a few ways, having this sort of expressive imagery to it that feels very abstract but also somewhat meaningful, though any perceived meaning is of course very subjective. Instead of the noisy, meditative openers of past outings, A U R O R A's first track, “Flex”, sounds like an airplane taking off; the steady, escalating synthesizer gives way to frantic jazz drumming partially consumed the crackling, loose wires around it.

He makes it so strong that you need to put ice and baking soda into a tincture just so you can take it all in one sitting without throwing up.With Fox and Harris’ clannish beats melding with Frost’s flirting, teasing electronics, the track erupts in a firecracker of yearning bass and disjointed synth melodies, “Diphenyl Oxalate” and lead single “Venter” soon morphing into a single unforgiving ambush. Diphenyl Oxalate” once had a melody, but it’s been mauled and eviscerated until only a wall of discord is left.