Matador have announced the reissue of Bardo Pond‘s Set And Setting (1999). Due for release on October 25th, the record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Accompanying the announcement, they have shared a previously unseen video for the song ‘This Time (So Fucked)’ which was Directed by Darren Ankenman.
Matador have also shared that Set and Setting will be 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.
The songs on Bardo Pond’s first two Matador releases – Amanita and Lapsed – were largely worked up at home and then recorded on the clock at a professional studio. 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.”
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Pre-order Melt Away: https://matador.lnk.to/bpmeltaway