Album Review: Ben Frost - A U R O R A

Unlike anything you'll hear this year, A U R O R A was mostly written in Eastern DR Congo where Frost documented the ongoing war there with video artist Richard Mosse. In response to what he saw, and aided by Swans' drummer Thor Harris, this uncompromising work trades in extremities, from ghostly ambience to new, violent sound media. On paper it brings to mind the noise-rock genre without any of its usual trappings. Once a collaborator who tended to stand behind others, Ben Frost is now ready for some serious kudos.