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Ben Frost: Scope Neglect review – grim grandeur with gnarly tongue-out riffs
The avant garde musician’s first album in seven years features cinematic ambience, pummelling sound design and whinnying metal guitar
Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost has the portfolio career of most avant garde musicians, dividing his time between scores for film, TV and video games while also making opera and art installations. Frost brings his considerable sound design skill to bear on the almighty hammer blows of Chimera and the electrifying The River of Light and Radiation, giving both a sci-fi cinematic heft. Centrepiece Turning the Prism slackens the narrative tension, but there’s still something gripping about sitting with its pure affect: arrhythmic beats landing like red-mist punches, Kubacki’s guitar rearing up with an equine whinny.
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