Ben Frost
Steel Wound

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A furiously good release on Aussie label Room40, this comes from experimental guitarist and Bjork remixer Ben Frost, and is a collection of epic ambient works made using his guitar (hence the title). I’m sure you’ve all heard a great deal of this sort of stuff before, there’s no shortage of droning ambient guitar albums, but rarely is the genre approached with such style and ease. Frost deftly tackles the sound, adding subtle layers of harmony, giving the tracks an ethereal half-heard beauty comparable to the great Stars of the Lid, and that really is praise of the highest order. Shimmering waves of reverberating guitar fill the soundfield, underpinned by rumbling bass tones to shake your very being into total concentration. I suppose many listeners would compare this to Fennesz, especially the noisy electric guitar jam of ‘You, Me and the End of Everything’, but Frost’s compositions are more homespun, more intimate and far less bombastic than anything Christian Fennesz ever
committed to wax. Gorgeous.