Ben Frost: Scope Neglect review – grim grandeur with gnarly tongue-out riffs | Experimental music
Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost has the portfolio career of most avant garde musicians, dividing his time between scores for film, TV and video games while also making opera and art installations. An album project seems almost quaint, but his first in seven years houses some of his very best work.Cover art for Scope Neglect. Photograph: Publicity imageFrost has long tended towards symphonic grandeur, disrupting it with punkish guitar, glitching electronics and spooky sound design – with occasional spells of…