Sings Reign Rebuilder – Set Fire To Flames [VINYL]

Unavailable on vinyl for over 20 years, ‘Sings Reign Rebuilder’ was the stunning 2001 debut album from Set Fire To Flames – a sprawling, adventurous 13-piece Montreal collective, inc. seven members of Godspeed you black emperor! and others from bands like A Silver Mt Zion, Fly Pan Am, etc. Recorded over a five-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 and concrete clatterings; atmospheric location recordings; stirring, chamber string arrangements; deep/sparse drones; and kraut-like, heavily rhythmic workouts.

Disc 1
1. ‘I Will Be True…’ (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #1)/Reign Rebuilder [head] – Set Fire To Flames (2.39)
2. Vienna Arcweld/Fucked Gamelan/Rigid Tracking – Set Fire To Flames (13.45)
3. Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear – Set Fire To Flames (6.12)
4. ‘Wild Dogs of the Thunderbolt/They Cannot Lock Me Up… I Am Eternally Free…’ (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #2) – Set Fire To Flames (4.54)
5. Omaha – Set Fire To Flames (6.16)
Disc 2
1. There Is No Dance in Frequency and Balance – Set Fire To Flames (4.16)
2. ‘Cte D’Abrahams Roomtone/What’s Going On?…’ (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body #3) – Set Fire To Flames (4.35)
3. Love Song for 15 Ontario (W/singing Police Car) – Set Fire To Flames (3.19)
4. Injur: Gutted Two-track – Set Fire To Flames (2.19)
5. When I First Get to Phoenix – Set Fire To Flames (3.12)
6. Shit-heap-Gloria of the New Town Planning – Set Fire To Flames (10.50)
7. Jesus/pop – Set Fire To Flames (1.42)
8. Esquimalt Harbour – Set Fire To Flames
9. Two Tears in a Bucket – Set Fire To Flames (3.43)
10. Fading Lights Are Fading…/Reign Rebuilder (Tail Out) – Set Fire To Flames (2.51)