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Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold

Review by Bekki Bemrose

There is little that is familiar or comfortable, but it’s far from structureless»

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Ben Frost releases his fifth studio album, The Centre Cannot Hold, out on Mute. 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.
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