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Ben Frost - By The Throat
Who let the dogs out?
Frost’s follow-up to 2007’s much-fancied Theory Of Machines takes many of its cues from the grisly world of Italian director Dario Argento. Possibly taking the director’s gruesome 1977 flick Suspiria as its premise for lycanthropic intervention and baying canine chorals, By The Throat goes for the jugular by pumping a world of rampant animalism full of scything electronic waves. The Pan Sonic-like pulses that course through tracks such as Killshot and Peter Venkman Pt I (an allusion to another, but altogether different, horror show) mirror and then merge with the visceral physicality of the howling dogs to create a most unholy union.
From these mergers there also spring moments of great tension, building from piano-led tributaries that skirt around the shimmer of tremulous strings and the (last) gasp of a man’s dying breath (one of Argento’s victims?). Frost has created a sumptuous, though often ominous cinematic soundtrack, one bridging the gap between the tumultuous exorcisms of Campbell Kneale’s various incarnations and the lunar-fied luminescence of Clint Mansell’s Moon.
Bedroom Community | HVALUR 6 CD
Reviewed by Spencer Grady
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