Set Fire To Flames Sings Reign Rebuilder 20th Anniversary Edition Vinyl LP 2022
Tracklist:
LP 1
1. 'I Will Be True...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #1)/Reign Rebuilder [head]
2. Vienna Arcweld/Fucked Gamelan/Rigid Tracking
3. Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear
4. 'Wild Dogs of the Thunderbolt/They Cannot Lock Me Up... I Am Eternally Free...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #2)
5. Omaha
LP 2
1. There Is No Dance in Frequency and Balance
2. 'Côte D'Abrahams Roomtone/What's Going On?...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #3)
3. Love Song for 15 Ontario (W/singing Police Car)
4. Injur: Gutted Two-track
5. When I First Get to Phoenix
6. Shit-heap-Gloria of the New Town Planning
7. Jesus/pop
8. Esquimalt Harbour
9. Two Tears in a Bucket
10. Fading Lights Are Fading.../Reign Rebuilder (Tail Out)
Unavailable on vinyl for over 20 years, ‘Sings reign Rebuilder’ was the stunning 2001 debut LP from Set Fire To Flames - a sprawling, adventurous 13-piece Montreal collective, inc. 7 members of Godspeed you black emperor! + others from bands like A Silver Mt Zion, Fly Pan Am, etc. The sole reason FatCat’s 130701 imprint was founded, the LP remains an incredible + unique document. Recorded over a 5-day period in a rickety old house in a communal atmosphere of long-duration improvised creative activity, operating on no sleep/confinement/intoxication, it was brilliantly edited to mix post-rock guitar-scapes; extended passages of scratchy, freeform improv + concrete clatterings; atmospheric location recordings; stirring, chamber string arrangements; deep/sparse drones; and Kraut-like, heavily rhythmic workouts. Described on its release by TimeOut as “one of the most broodingly beautiful, dramatically emotional, hauntingly evocative albums likely to ever scrape at your soul… This record will kill you”; and by Pitchfork as “a gripping testament to the power of emotional expression in music... a marvelously inventive and powerful album.”