Bedroom Community, 2009

By The Throat – no kidding. With its stark and foreboding electro-ambience, Ben Frost’s latest record conjures an understandably bleak landscape. But it’s also one where the fear is justified: delicate strings and horns surface only to be ruthlessly consumed by harsh electronic noise; encircling wolf howls are heard amidst the drone, before a savage snarl sounds next to your ear. Terrifying and brilliant.

Fluttery Records, 2009

Seven minutes of deafening, near-formless noise opens No Exit. Two minutes of something akin to electronic whale song follows. Track six sounds like some megalithic spacecraft grinding slowly past your window. The improvisational project of Lajos Ishibashi-Brons is certainly not easy – this is an hour of droning, freeform, unsettling noise; anti-music that you might admire, detest, or both.