A U R O R A

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Then a roaring crescendo from the nothing comes in and immolates the song into molten gothic horror. Collaborators Greg Fox, Shahzad Isamily and Thor Harris (of Swans fame) reinforce A U R O R A's computer sheen with real sweat and blood. As such, the album feels more industrial than ambient, but driven by the awesome machines of nature rather than those built by man. The album is dense and aggressive, spewing fire and venom from every angle and creating an environment that’s not just dark and ominous, but corrosive to the touch. Like much of A U R O R A, it feels like a battle between the human and the digital, Frost’s cold synthesizers and laptops vs.

Indeed, it’s beautiful, but in a way that allows for all of its chilling menace to rise to the fore. In this mode, he fits in line with producers like Container, Sandwell District, Demdike Stare, and Vatican Shadow, but he never stays in one place, and the album is filled with variety and a great sense of dynamics.

Five years after its release it still stands almost entirely alone, incomparable and unparalleled, a rare feat indeed.

Nothing more than a brief burst of energy and light, it comes and goes violently, mirroring those same short but energetic lives in its crushing noise and jarring flickers of piercing drone.With the fog parting on the horizon and the sun rising urgently in the East, the album splinters into full-blown technicolour on the glitchy introspection of “Sola Fide” and closing, techno-tinged highlight, “A Single Point of Light” – a triumphant ten minutes of intent-drenched transmutation and steady disintegration. There have been quite a few curveballs in his trajectory since, the comparably wary wanderlust of earlier material giving way to darker urges on soundtrack work, collaborative efforts such as Music for Solaris and his fourth solo album, 2009’s wonderfully foreboding By The Throat. And all of the 2009 album’s eleven tracks more than lived up to the spine-tingling promise of its aggressive, viscerally evocative title. Enjoy 20% off your purchase today when you sign up to our newsletter and be the first to get notified of the latest releases and exclusive special offers straight to your inbox! Where the former flares up to induce an altogether endurable cacophonous foray - again, not without moments of melodic reprieve – the latter builds on Harris’ cautionary bell tolls and Frost’s merciless orchestration to induce something altogether more extraordinary.