17. Ben Frost - By The Throat
"Born in Melbourne but now hailing from Iceland, Ben Frost deals in a soundscape of processed industrial fizzing and hiss, samples of the howling of wolves, strange thuds as if heard through a distant strata. Indeed, you could argue that By The Throat makes for an interesting companion piece to Quietus favourite King Cannibal's Let The Night Roar - both create similar feelings of nocturnal unease, and unspecified threat. But where Let The Night Roar is a Mitcham post-Threads nuclear blast, By The Throat is humanity a few centuries along, clinging to a bleak existence on sparse rocks in the midst of eternal winter, cultural memory wiped, and listening in vain for the electronic beeps of a signal that spells solace and rescue." Luke Turner