Ben Frost - Aurora LP

The 10th anniversary vinyl edition of Ben Frost’s acclaimed album, Aurora, is presented on red vinyl with alternative artwork and an exclusive download of his blistering 2014 live performance at Berlin’s Berghain. The album, which has lost none of its visceral potency in the intervening years, was greeted with universal acclaim and went on to be featured in the Albums of the Year at NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, Clash, Crack, FACT, Stereogum, Washington Post, Exclaim!, Popmatters, Under the Radar and more. Starved of all the adornments of its predecessor, Aurora is wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy. The album is a defiant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals. Performed by Ben Frost with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily and Thor Harris (ex-Swans), Aurora was largely written in Eastern DR Congo, whilst on assignment with visual artist Richard Mosse, and aims directly, through