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01. Ben Frost - Theory Of Machines
02. Ben Frost - Stomp
03. Ben Frost - We Love You Michael Gira
04. Ben Frost - Coda
05. Ben Frost - Forgetting You Is Like Breathing Water
ARTIST
TITLE
Theory Of Machines
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HVALUR 002CD HVALUR 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/6/2007

2007 release; new midline pricing. This is Reykjavik-based composer/producer Ben Frost's first release for the Icelandic Bedroom Community label. From the ominous darkness and intensity of its opening moments, one might expect a death metal album to break out in an instant, but Theory Of Machines is an album whose design is as symphonic as it is confrontational -- the tempo doesn't pick up, no hooks or vocals arrive, and when the drums finally kick in, they're as fragmented and corroded as they could possibly be and still resemble a groove. On Theory Of Machines, Ben Frost exploits every extreme of pitch, volume and timbre, the changes in this music sometimes seem as gradual as changes in the weather -- and sometimes as violent. As the music changes it changes only in texture, color and intensity so that the sense is not of something being created, altered or even developed, but of something already present being slowly illuminated. At 26, he has already released such critically-lauded works as 2003's guitar exploration LP, Steel Wound on the Room40 Label, which Pitchfork Media marked as "...an exemplary ambient experience," and the harrowing, self-titled 2005 opus School of Emotional Engineering, which Db Magazine called "...an atmospheric masterpiece."