[Cover photo credit to Topper Komm]
Ben Frost has announced the details of his sixth studio album, Scope Neglect, a work that opens a new chapter in his career. Due out on standard vinyl, CD and digitally via Mute on March 1st, 2024, we can preview the album via new track, “The River of Light and Radiation.” A limited edition vinyl version is available today via Mutebank and Bandcamp.
Scope Neglect handles Metal traditions but puts them through a process of “alchemy”.
The album is fuelled by Progressive Metal outfit Car Bomb’s guitarist Greg Kubacki and bassist Liam Andrews of fellow Australians My Disco.
The album is described thus:
Scope Neglect is a deliberate opposition in terms; of a dualistic game of obfuscation and obliteration, a sonic universe stripped to its most elemental core where the mechanics are reconfigured, reengineered, old energies diverted and redirected, scope expanded, contracted, and dissolved.
Frost has worked across film, television, and opera, earning praise for his score for Julia Leigh’s Palme d’Or-nominated Sleeping Beauty and scores for TV series such as 1899, including a collaboration with Eliot Sumner (AKA Vaal), Raised By Wolves, Fortitude, and the cult series Dark. Additionally, his opera creations, including The Wasp Factory and The Murder of Halit Yozgat, have been performed at London’s Royal Opera House and Hannover’s Staatsoper.
Following successful exhibitions for Broken Spectre, his collaboration with Richard Mosse, at London’s 180 Studios, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria and The Momentary Museum Bentonville, Arkansas in 2023, the New York debut of Broken Spectre opens this week at the Jack Shainman Gallery (continuing until March 16th).
Ben Frost’s solo installation Among The Petals, a new commission for The Momentary Museum in Arkansas, will run until April. This follows the solo installation work A Predatory Chord which Frost presented in Athens in May. Frost’s collaboration with artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris to score their Prophecy of Butterflies will also be on view in a neighboring gallery at The Momentary.
BEN FROST LIVE 2024:
1/27/2024-1/28/2024 – Berlin, DE – CTM Festival
4/6/2024 – The Hague, NL – Rewire Festival, The Hague
4/20/2024 – Catania, IT – Zo Cultural Center
4/23/2024 – Milan, IT – Fog @ Triennale
