By The Throat
- Ben Frost
- Band Name: Ben Frost
- Record Label: Bedroom Community
- Release Date: Nov 10, 2009
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The melding of clinical technology and human elements -- i.e., real instruments -- as a way of bringing the listener in made it nearly unbearable, but so utterly original that it compelled one to engage it.
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It's not only an addition to 2009's unassailably fantastic class of ambient music, but in a way is unique to that class for the menace with which it's threaded.
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In the midst of the beautiful descending piano chords of the Twin Peaks referencing 'Leo Needs a New Pair of Shoes' a blade of static erupts without warning, coming to life with an extremely high-frequency version of a distress flare's hiss. Once this has faded the track's coda becomes the most beautiful section of the album, clean descending string-playing blending with a more frenetic bowing and echoing wolf cries.