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Where the record touches aspects of the genre, it’s met with glitching electronics, immersive ambient industrial churns and deeply contemplative explorations that result in something impossible to pigeonhole. Created with guitarist Greg Kubacki (from New York’s progressive metal band Car Bomb) and bassist Liam Andrews (from Melbourne band MY DISCO), the album was recorded at Candy Bomber studios in Berlin with engineer Ingo Krauss (Swans, Nick Cave, and Mick Harvey).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Frost is known for his groundbreaking contributions to composition, production, sound art, and direction over the past 15 years, including soundtracks for film and TV including Netflix shows Dark and 1899.  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Says Frost: “Working in this strange and beautiful world of light and shadow has been a gift and an endless source of inspiration”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Frost is an Australian composer and producer based in Iceland. His albums include: \u003ci\u003eSteel Wound\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eSchool of Emotional Engineering\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eTheory of Machines\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eBy the Throat \u003c\/i\u003e(2009), \u003ci\u003eSólaris\u003c\/i\u003e (with Daníel Bjarnason) (2011),\u003ci\u003e Aurora\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eThe Centre Cannot Hold\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eFortitude OST\u003c\/i\u003e (2017, 2018) and more. Dark is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. 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For this release the artist creates vivid minimalist textures that capture the drama of the compelling new film \u003ci\u003eSuper Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e. “When Kevin Phillips approached me to write music for his film it resonated immediately. As a composer, the thing that perhaps excited me the most is that Super Dark Times, is in many ways of a period drama, and that within that idea there was a largely untapped world of sound to explore. Whilst the sound of the ‘80s had long since moved into the realm of retro, 1995 still feels uncomfortably close. 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