Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold (29 Sept 2017)

Ben Frost has announced details of his fifth studio album, The Centre Cannot Hold, out on 29 September 2017.

The Centre Cannot Hold was recorded over ten days by Steve Albini in Chicago. The music exists not in space, but in a space; it is a document of an event, of a room, and of the composer within it. It is music that is not fully controlled and appears to be anxiously, often violently competing against its creator.

An exercise in limitation and chromatic saturation, The Centre Cannot Hold is an attempt at transcribing a spectrum of glowing ultramarine into sound.

Watch the video for Threshold Of Faith, the opening cut from the new album, a new collaboration shot in the winter of 2016 in Reykjavík, Iceland with conceptual documentary photographer Richard Mosse and Cinematographer Trevor Tweeten: po.st/BFThresholdVideo

Ben Frost released Threshold Of Faith, a seven-track 12” and digital EP, last month. Pitchfork describe the track title track as “moving from heroic vistas into a garbled, snow-blinded melee. Distant choral pads, a glistening upper-register sheen, submerged piano, and groaning harmonies all stack up into a geologic crescendo that extends into infinity.” while The 405 describe the EP as “scorching and beautiful”.

https://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/the-centre-cannot-hold

  On 8/9/2017 at 5:51 PM, doublename said:

 

The music exists not in space, but in a space; it is a document of an event, of a room, and of the composer within it. It is music that is not fully controlled and appears to be anxiously, often violently competing against its creator.

 

Pretentious twaddle. 

  On 8/9/2017 at 6:03 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 8/9/2017 at 5:51 PM, doublename said:

 

The music exists not in space, but in a space; it is a document of an event, of a room, and of the composer within it. It is music that is not fully controlled and appears to be anxiously, often violently competing against its creator.

 

 

Pretentious twaddle. 

 

btw, I'm referring to the PR blurb and not doublename's post.

I'm excited and that video/song is awesome, but I also facepalmed at that blurb.

  On 8/9/2017 at 6:05 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 8/9/2017 at 6:03 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 8/9/2017 at 5:51 PM, doublename said:

 

The music exists not in space, but in a space; it is a document of an event, of a room, and of the composer within it. It is music that is not fully controlled and appears to be anxiously, often violently competing against its creator.

 

 

Pretentious twaddle. 

 

 

btw, I'm referring to the PR blurb and not doublename's post.

 

 That PR writeup really is laughable.

oh fuck yes, been hankering for some new Frost

can't believe I've missed a whole EP too!

I completely missed the Threshold Of Faith EP too. 

  On 8/9/2017 at 6:17 PM, doublename said:

I completely missed the Threshold Of Faith EP too. 

You need to hear the EP. Maybe Spotify it?

My fucking wallet. MY POOR POOR FUCKING WALLET.

is he competing with tim hecker for most self indulgent pr blurb?

Horrible title

  On 8/10/2017 at 1:50 AM, zaphod said:

is he competing with tim hecker for most self indulgent pr blurb?

possible but he hasn't outdone “liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus” yet

  On 8/10/2017 at 3:07 PM, bendish said:

Horrible title

Oh dear, you'd better not listen to it then.

  On 8/10/2017 at 4:18 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 8/10/2017 at 3:07 PM, bendish said:

Horrible title

Oh dear, you'd better not listen to it then.

 

I definitely will. 

great news, so looking forward to this and i still gotta check that new ep out 2

That EP is quality. Can't believe I missed it when it came out.

  On 8/10/2017 at 3:31 PM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 8/10/2017 at 1:50 AM, zaphod said:

is he competing with tim hecker for most self indulgent pr blurb?

 

possible but he hasn't outdone “liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus” yet

 

bahahahaha

  On 8/9/2017 at 5:51 PM, doublename said:

 

An exercise in limitation and chromatic saturation, The Centre Cannot Hold is an attempt at transcribing a spectrum of glowing ultramarine into sound.

 

Fucker nicked my album cover

  On 8/15/2017 at 3:09 PM, purlieu said:

Fucker nicked my album cover

the same shade of blue and all

BEN FROST IS A HACK, CONFIRMED

Aussie white bloke with dreads who lives in Iceland in a treehouse? I picture him hanging off a branch and you will obey his artistic whims. Sort of like Lars Ulrich's Dad but Australian so therefore owns a nutribullet.

  On 8/10/2017 at 1:50 AM, zaphod said:

is he competing with tim hecker for most self indulgent pr blurb?

More words about a room and recording noise - https://www.breakingtunes.com/amalgamatedwondersoftheworld

& Bleep.com have some of the most absurd reviews and blurbs out there, why can't everyone just drive a tank FFS.

I have been watching the show Fortitude Nd realised he did the music for the show. Great stuff, need to see if there is a soundtrack

  On 8/15/2017 at 3:09 PM, purlieu said:

Fucker nicked my album cover

This is better.

noice