Philadelphia group Bardo Pond release a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. The record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl.
Set and Setting is accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in the band’s career, and released together on vinyl for the first time. Of these, album highlight ‘The Trail’, originally recorded for the 1997 compilation What’s Up Matador, dissolves six minutes into a moment.
On Set and Setting, the band chose to work out of its home base, Lemur House, and the end result benefited from the open-ended DIY flexibility. “It was closer to the heart of what we do,” says guitarist Michael Gibbons. “There was more improvisation, but also more culling of material. We had more time to find things that jumped out at us, go places we wouldn’t normally go, do investigative work. I think there was a shift. It’s just somehow a more true experience of Bardo Pond.”
Stream / buy Melt Away here.
Stream / buy Set and Setting (25th Anniversary Edition) here.
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