''By the Throat'' is the second
studio album by
experimental
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and
drone
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* Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
* Unmanned aerial vehicle
* Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft
* Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone
Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:
...
musician
Ben Frost
Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer, and director.
Life
Born in Melbourne, Australia, and based in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 2005, Frost composes minimalist, instrumental, a ...
.
Reception
Electronic musician
Tim Hecker
Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, composer, and sound artist. His work, spanning atmospheric ambient albums such as ''Harmony in Ultraviolet'' (2006), ''Ravedeath, 1972'' (2011) and ''Virgins'' (2013), has been widely cr ...
named ''By the Throat'' as his favorite album of 2009.
''
Resident Advisor''—an
online magazine
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with a focus on
electronic music
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—named ''By the Throat'' as the 16th best album of 2009.
Track listing
References
2009 albums
Ben Frost albums
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