BEN FROST - A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Edition) - LP - Red Vinyl [OCT 11]

LP - Limited 10th Anniversary Red Vinyl Edition - limited to 300 in the UK Alternative cover art. Includes exclusive download of Ben Frost’s 2014 live performance at Berlin’s Berghain. 

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost releases a limited edition red vinyl of his studio album, A U R O R A, on Mute. Limited to just 300 copies in the UK, this vinyl edition includes alternative artwork and an exclusive download of his blistering 2014 live performance at Berlin’s Berghain.

A U R O R A, which has lost none of its visceral potency in the intervening years, received universal acclaim and featured in Albums of the Year lists at NPR, Rolling Stone, Clash, Crack, FACT, Stereogum, and more. Performed by Frost along with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily, and Thor Harris (ex-Swans) and largely written in Eastern DR Congo, the album is wholly absent of guitar, piano, string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, offering a defiantly synthetic world of fiercely shaped sounds and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.

Frost is known for his groundbreaking contributions to composition, production, sound art, and direction over the past 15 years. These include soundtracks for film and TV shows such as Fortitude, Raised by Wolves, and Netflix series Dark and 1899, as well as opera creations including The Wasp Factory and The Murder of Halit Yozgat (which was performed at London's Royal Opera House and Hannover's Staatsoper). In 2024, he released his first studio album in six years, titled Scope Neglect, an experimental, genre-shifting record forged from Frost’s admiration for metal with the mindful removal of its conventional attributes.

“… best album yet” - Pitchfork Best New Music

“Unrelentingly menacing… a 40-minute suite of VHS grinding, wistful Blade Runner synths, howling white noise and broken Detroit techno” – Rolling Stone

“Frost’s most fully realised album” – The Quietus

“…rich and rewarding electronic shamanism” – Crack

“…the darkest and most powerful recording of his career.” – RA

A U R O R A (10th Anniversary Red Vinyl Edition) - limited to 300 in the UK.

Tracklist: 

A1. Flex
A2. Nolan
A3. The Teeth Behind The Kisses
A4. Secant
A5. Diphenyl Oxalate

B1. Venter
B2. No Sorrowing
B3. Sola Fide
B4. A Single Point Of Blinding Light