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Set Fire to Flames is a Godspeed You Black Emperor side project based heavily around improvisation and taking the "found audio" aspect of Godspeed's sound to the absolute limit. The entire album was recorded not in the Hotel2Tango, the usual haunt of Godspeed and its related bands, but in a creaky, abandoned, soon to be demolished old house, and the band made a deliberate decision not to edit out any incidental noises (to the extent where a passing police car ends up getting a performer credit on one song). The end result is intriguing: whereas on Godspeed's albums there's a disjunction between the impeccably produced instrumental playing and the scratchy found audio clips, here the instrumentals are the found audio. It's far more successful an experiment than I expected it to be, that's for sure.

Warthur | 4/5 | 2012-3-8

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