Following praise from The Guardian and The New York Times, Ben Frost releases his third studio single in seven years, “Chimera,” setting the stage for his much-anticipated album, Scope Neglect, that is due out via Mute on March 1st, 2024.
He has also announced a run of North American tour dates that kick off in Brooklyn, NY on March 7th at Public Records. Full dates are listed below.
In the sonic crucible of Ben Frost’s Scope Neglect, music undergoes a metamorphic alchemy. It’s the beginning of a new chapter in Frost’s career that’s uncanny, unexplainable, familiar yet entirely new and groundbreaking, like a curious mathematical anomaly.
“There is always a shape and a sense of proportion that I am looking for. And with these elements, I was looking to sort of recalibrate some familiar mechanics with the hope of creating something new.”
Once again, Frost has genuinely created something that feels unlike anything else. There are touches of metal throughout, but these sit alongside crackling electronics, field recordings, breathing animals, and deeply contemplative explorations, resulting in something impossible to pigeonhole.
Following successful exhibitions for ‘Broken Spectre,’ his latest collaboration with Richard Mosse, at London’s 180 Studios, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, SFMOMA, Photo Elysée, and The Momentary Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas in 2023, the New York debut of ‘Broken Spectre’ is ongoing until March 16th at the Jack Shainman Gallery. Meanwhile, following the acclaimed solo installation work ‘A Predatory Chord’ which Frost presented in Athens last May, Ben Frost’s solo installation ‘Among The Petals’ is on show at The Momentary Museum until April.
BEN FROST LIVE DATES 2024:
3/1/2024 – Reykjavik, IS – Iðno
3/7/2024 – Brooklyn, NY – Public Records
3/9/2024 – Bentonville, AR – Momentous Festival
3/10/2024 – San Francisco, CA – Gray Area
3/11/2024 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
4/6/2024 – The Hague, NL – Rewire Festival, The Hague
4/12/2024 – Tallinn, EE – Paavli Kultuurivabrik
4/13/2024 – Riga, LV – Hanzas Perons
4/23/2024 – Milan, IT – Fog @ Triennale
4/26/2024 – Krems, AT – donaufestival
5/19/2024 – Kiev, UA – Strichka @ Closer
6/14/2024 – Athens, EL
