2LP - Limited Edition Heavyweight Black Vinyl (Remastered) housed in a Gatefold Sleeve with Obi-Strip+ original 24-page 7”x7” booklet w/ full colour print + 8 tracing-paper pages + full DL coupon.
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 Fat Cat’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 Time Out 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.”
Tracklist:
A1. ‘i Will Be True...’ (From Lips Of Lying Dying Wonder Body #1) / Reign Rebuilder [Head]
A2. Vienna Arcweld / Fucked Gamelan / Rigid Tracking
B1. Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear
B2. Wild Dogs Of The Thunderbolt / ‘they Cannot Lock Me Up... I Am Eternally Free...’ (From Lips Of Lying Dying Wonder Body #2)
B3. Omaha
C1. There is No Dance In Frequency And Balance
C2. Côte D’abrahams Roomtone/’what’s Going On?...’ (From Lips Of Lying Dying Wonder Body #3)
C3. Love Song For 15 Ontario (W/ Singing Police Car)
C4. Injur: Gutted Two-Track
C5. When I First Get To Phoenix
C6. Shit-Heap-Gloria Of The New Town Planning
D1. Jesus / Pop
D2. Esquimalt Harbour
D3. Two Tears In A Bucket
D4. Fading Lights Are Fading / Reign Rebuilder [Tail Out]