Breaking the Frame

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Breaking the Frame
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Studio album by
Surgeon
Released2011 (2011)
Genre Techno
Length55:33
Label Dynamic Tension
Producer Anthony Child
Surgeon chronology
Body Request
(2000)		Breaking the Frame
(2011)		From Farthest Known Objects
(2016)

Breaking the Frame is a studio album by English record producer Anthony Child under the pseudonym Surgeon. [1] It was released in 2011 through Dynamic Tension Records. [2]

Contents

Background

Breaking the Frame is Surgeon's first studio album since Body Request (2000). [1] In an interview, he explained that the album "was very influenced by spiritually inspired music by people like Alice Coltrane, Eliane Radigue and Terry Riley, La Monte Young, that kind of thing." [3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Fact Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [5]
Resident Advisor 4.0/5 [2]

Michaelangelo Matos of Resident Advisor commented that "Each of these nine tracks is stark and enormous." [2] He added, "Straight off, they announce themselves, and while each has a good amount of detail that you don't even have to listen very closely to notice, what's striking about them all is that those strong first impressions remain true the entire time each track plays." [2] Tim Finney of Pitchfork stated, "It's typical on an album whose structures throw shadows of bleak, inhuman grandeur: Enormity, rather than velocity, defines the best work on Breaking the Frame, and there's a masochistic pleasure in being made to feel very small as you lose yourself on the dancefloor." [5]

Accolades

Year-end lists for Breaking the Frame
PublicationListRankRef.
Fact The 50 Best Albums of 2011
38
[6]
PopMatters The 10 Best Electronic Albums of 2011
5
[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Anthony Child..

Breaking the Frame track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Dark Matter"3:05
2."Transparent Radiation"6:47
3."Remover of Darkness"6:44
4."The Power of Doubt"7:45
5."Radiance"6:40
6."Presence"6:46
7."We Are All Already Here"5:41
8."Those Who Do Not"7:51
9."Not-Two"4:11
Total length:55:33

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Surgeon preps new LP, Breaking The Frame". Resident Advisor . 21 March 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Matos, Michaelangelo (6 July 2011). "Surgeon - Breaking the Frame". Resident Advisor . Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  3. ↑ Gibb, Rory (23 April 2013). "An Actor Prepares: An Interview With Surgeon". The Quietus . Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Law, Ruaridh (6 June 2011). "Surgeon: Breaking the Frame". Fact . Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  5. 1 2 Finney, Tim (11 August 2011). "Surgeon: Breaking the Frame". Pitchfork . Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "The 50 Best Albums of 2011 (page 2 of 5)". Fact . 30 November 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "The 10 Best Electronic Albums of 2011 (page 2 of 2)". PopMatters . 28 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  8. ↑ Surgeon (2011). Breaking the Frame (CD booklet). Dynamic Tension Records.
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