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Jul 22, 2014There’s nothing knee-jerk about it; just the inexorable sounds of ideas beautiful and terrible unfurling. It’s a careful, masterful record.
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May 28, 2014Where 2009's By The Throat was ruthless but exacting, this one feels genuinely unhinged--and that unpredictability makes it far more thrilling than any engineered suspense could have been.
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May 27, 2014A U R O R A is dark, dreadful, and dramatic; it is also a masterpiece.
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Jun 25, 2014With A U R O R A, Ben Frost has crafted an unimpeachable story of weathering the most abrasive elements of existence and emerging stronger for the trials endured.
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Jun 11, 2014A brutal yet glorious release that doubles up as an unbending overture to fervour and force.
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May 30, 2014A U R O R A can be heard as Frost’s attempt to create something physical, and it stands above the rest of his discography.
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Oct 23, 2014Influenced by both the horrors of war and the looming threat of a nearby active volcano, A U R O R A is every bit as terrifying and brutal as those inspirations suggest, but also oddly hypnotic and contemplative.
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The WireJul 17, 2014Frost's most fully realised work to date. [May 2014, p.62]
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Jun 4, 2014At its best, A U R O R A is an exhilarating work, propulsive and contemplative, able to allow for moments of searing volume and elegant beauty.
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Jun 3, 2014Frost has ditched much of the subtlety and minimalism that echoed within his previous work and birthed a surging, hard charging, straight to the rim, go-hard-in-the-paint beast of an album.
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May 29, 2014If his aim was to give musical form to the eastern DRC’s “unnerving beauty and unflinching horror”, then A U R O R A is a dazzling success.
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May 27, 2014Aurora does not disappoint; it continues Ben Frost’s resume as one of the most fascinating experimental musicians in the world.
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May 23, 2014There can be beauty in decay, growth from devastation, and A U R O R A helps open your eyes to that perspective.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014The relentless live percussion give Frost's music the structure that makes it more than noise. [Jun 2014, p.111]
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May 20, 2014A U R O R A is both testing of boundaries and transcendental of beauty.
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May 20, 2014There is a epic scale to many of these tracks, and there is also an underlying and undeniable sense of violence. Yet curiously Aurora is also one of Frost’s most accessible and positive sounding records, and one of his most metallic and industrial efforts to date.
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May 20, 2014Ben Frost has pulled off something quite remarkable with A U R O R A in making a record that's pretty terrifying in places yet so utterly irresistible.
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Jun 3, 2014Deeply unsettling, heart-quickeningly intense and often gorgeous.
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May 29, 2014It has to be said that A U R O R A easily justifies its existence, and that even if its quasi-independent emotional domain won’t empower us to do away with the niggardly concrete bases of its emergence, it will at least beautify them for 40 minutes.
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UncutMay 20, 2014It's hard-going at times, but "Nolan" and "Soda Fide" are oddly stirring. [Jun 2014, p.78]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 33
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Mixed: 5 out of 33
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Negative: 3 out of 33
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