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Montreal, Canada (1999 – present)

Set Fire to Flames is a post-rock band of thirteen musicians from Montreal, Canada, formed in 1999, who have released two albums on Alien8 Recordings or FatCat Records depending on where you live.

Both albums were recorded “in states of little or no sleep, in varying levels of intoxication, and in physical confinement,” with the result being brooding, eerie music. The material for their first album Sings Reign Rebuilder was created over five days in a dilapidated old apartment in Montreal and is a mixture of improvisation, composition, and environment noises. Their sophomore double album Telegraphs In Negative / Mouths Trapped In Static was recorded in a barn in rural Ontario; the sounds of the creaking doors and other background noise are heard in the songs.

Many of their tracks are very minimalist in nature, filled with ambient noise and various other non-musical sound effects, juxtaposed or combined with instrumental music.

The band is often considered a side-project of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and the two musical ensembles share several members.

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post-rock, experimental, ambient, instrumental, post rock
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1	Omaha full track	193
2	When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts full track	186
3	When I First Get to Phoenix full track	185
4	Your Guts Are Like Mine full track	154
4	There Is No Dance in Frequency and Balance full track	154
6	Kill Fatigue Frequencies full track	147
7	And the Birds Are About to Bust Their Guts With Singing full track	139
8	Two Tears in a Bucket full track	136
9	Esquimalt Harbour full track	133
10	Measure de Mesure full track	114
11	Injur: Gutted Two-Track full track	101
12	Rites of Spring Reverb full track	82
13	Mouths Trapped in Static full track	79
14	In Prelight Isolate full track	77
15	Buzz of Barn Flies Like Faulty Electronics full track	76

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petrolatum wrote:
last week

MOAR SET FIRE TO FLAMES PLZ

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SUNCITYGIRL wrote:
last week

god is an astronaut dont sound anything like GYBE [2]

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stevechaya wrote:
last month

love song for 15 ontario is the fuckin jam to end all jams

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arviiin wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/music/Arvin+H.Kamal/This+Horrible+Creature%2C+Human%21

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FranticFish123 wrote:
last month

"oh one of those gybe carbon copies, gotcha" god is an astronaut dont sound anything like GYBE ('-')...

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riigo wrote:
last month

i was referring to "god is an astronaut" you uncouth cad

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MelynasJautis wrote:
last month

GY!BE and Set Fire To Flames are definitely that post-rock sound bands which reflect my inside.

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NateAbel wrote:
last month

"oh one of those gybe carbon copies, gotcha" Well, considering it has a bunch of members from gybe in it...

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Kowaqqatzi wrote:
last month

riigo, you've got you hat back!

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riigo wrote:
last month

oh one of those gybe carbon copies, gotcha

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Kowaqqatzi wrote:
last month

eerie music. not as great as i hoped though. it's like ASMZ but with more diegetic sounds, more experimental and with utmost disrespect for structure or voice. good though

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FranticFish123 wrote:
last month

"god is an astronaut? what the fuck is a "god is an astronaut"?" A shitty post-rock band of LOUDLOUDsoftLOUDsoftsoftLOUD [repeat] variety.

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armed_desire wrote:
October 2009

i feel like eventually i'll really like this, but i'm not there yet. not giving up on it yet though.

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Balpheor wrote:
October 2009

amazing stuff / Sings Reign Rebuilder <3

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chris90one wrote:
October 2009

Most certainly unoverrated

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Lhuntarn wrote:
October 2009

Most certainly overrated.

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danilofloydiano wrote:
October 2009

lindo demais ! =]

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riigo wrote:
October 2009

god is an astronaut? what the fuck is a "god is an astronaut"?

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Hiigg wrote:
October 2009

I prefer Long Distance Calling.

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FranticFish123 wrote:
October 2009

my second favourite post-rock band after Godspeed You! Black Emperor, so much better than shit like God Is An Astronaut.

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