Breaking the Frame
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{{Infobox album
| name = Breaking the Frame
| type = studio
| artist = Surgeon
| cover = surgeonbreakingtheframe.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|df=yes|2011}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Techno
| length = 55:33
| label = Dynamic Tension
| producer = Anthony Child
| prev_title = Body Request
| prev_year = 2000
| next_title = From Farthest Known Objects
| next_year = 2016
}}
Breaking the Frame is a studio album by English record producer Anthony Child under the pseudonym Surgeon. It was released in 2011 through Dynamic Tension Records.
Background
Breaking the Frame is Surgeon's first studio album since Body Request (2000).{{Cite web |url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13789 |title=Surgeon preps new LP, Breaking The Frame |website=Resident Advisor |date=21 March 2011 |access-date=23 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026050419/http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13789 |archive-date=26 October 2013 |url-status=dead}} 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."{{Cite web |url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/surgeon-interview-anthony-child-space-between-people-things/ |title=An Actor Prepares: An Interview With Surgeon |website=The Quietus |first=Rory |last=Gibb |date=23 April 2013 |access-date=23 April 2025}}
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Fact
| rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.factmag.com/2011/06/06/surgeon-breaking-the-frame/ |title=Surgeon: Breaking the Frame |website=Fact |first=Ruaridh |last=Law |date=6 June 2011 |access-date=23 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609015013/http://www.factmag.com/2011/06/06/surgeon-breaking-the-frame/ |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}
| rev2 = Pitchfork
| rev2score = 7.2/10{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15720-breaking-the-frame/ |title=Surgeon: Breaking the Frame |website=Pitchfork |first=Tim |last=Finney |date=11 August 2011 |access-date=23 April 2025}}
| rev3 = Resident Advisor
| rev3score = 4.0/5{{Cite web |url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=9330 |title=Surgeon - Breaking the Frame |website=Resident Advisor |first=Michaelangelo |last=Matos |date=6 July 2011 |access-date=23 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141431/http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=9330 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}
}}
Michaelangelo Matos of Resident Advisor commented that "Each of these nine tracks is stark and enormous." 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." 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."
= Accolades =
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ Year-end lists for Breaking the Frame |
| scope="col" | Publication
! scope="col" | List ! scope="col" | Rank ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Ref.}} |
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| scope="row" | Fact
| The 50 Best Albums of 2011 | {{center|38}} | {{center|{{Cite web |url=https://www.factmag.com/2011/11/30/50-best-albums-of-2011-50-41/2/ |title=The 50 Best Albums of 2011 (page 2 of 5) |website=Fact |date=30 November 2011 |access-date=23 April 2025}}}} |
| scope="row" | PopMatters
| The 10 Best Electronic Albums of 2011 | {{center|5}} | {{center|{{Cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/best-electronic-music-2011/2 |title=The 10 Best Electronic Albums of 2011 (page 2 of 2) |website=PopMatters |date=28 April 2021 |access-date=23 April 2025}}}} |
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Anthony Child.
| headline = Breaking the Frame track listing
| title1 = Dark Matter
| length1 = 3:05
| title2 = Transparent Radiation
| length2 = 6:47
| title3 = Remover of Darkness
| length3 = 6:44
| title4 = The Power of Doubt
| length4 = 7:45
| title5 = Radiance
| length5 = 6:40
| title6 = Presence
| length6 = 6:46
| title7 = We Are All Already Here
| length7 = 5:41
| title8 = Those Who Do Not
| length8 = 7:51
| title9 = Not-Two
| length9 = 4:11
| total_length = 55:33
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.{{Cite AV media notes |author=Surgeon |date=2011 |title=Breaking the Frame |type=CD booklet |publisher=Dynamic Tension Records}}
- Anthony Child – production
- Trudy Creen – artwork, typography
References
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External links
- {{Discogs master|340635}}
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