Logo

Suggestions

  • Latest
  • New Music
  • News Stories
  • Interviews
  • Exclusive Streams
  • Music Videos
  • Live Videos
  • Tours
  • Festivals
  • Latest
  • New Music
  • News Stories
  • Interviews
  • Exclusive Streams
  • Music Videos
  • Live Videos
  • Tours
  • Festivals

Logo

Suggestions

  • Latest
  • New Music
  • News Stories
  • Interviews
  • Exclusive Streams
  • Music Videos
  • Live Videos
  • Tours
  • Festivals
SET AND SETTING
New Music

Metallic post rockers SET AND SETTING streaming new song

November 21, 2016
1 min read

With its upcoming, third album Reflectionless, St. Petersburg, Florida quintet SET AND SETTING establishes a new gold standard for the genre of instrumental rock. Hear Reflectionless’ opening track, “Saudade,” below.

Driven by two drummers laying down a thunderous base, Set and Setting brings an aggressive attack to the lulls and swells that have come to define the post-rock sound. Set and Setting can do “pretty” – its soaring guitars create absolutely regal vistas of sound – but this band also rocks, hard. On Reflectionless, faint strains of Kylesa, and even Sonic Youth, can be heard in addition to more central influences like Explosions in the Sky. 

Where many peers merely swing back and forth from loud to soft, happy to sad, Set and Setting rolls forward with beastly momentum and keeps the story progressing. Without a single lyric, Reflectionless captivates from start to finish.

Guitarist Shane Handal gives this insight: “Every album we have done has had a concept to it. With Reflectionless I wanted to be a little more vague. This album is based on the idea that external reality is just a projection of your inner self. The particular ‘character’ here has no idea who they are, therefore having no reflection.”

Photo by Ryan Zarra

Reflectionless was recorded by Ryan Haft (Torche, Wrong) at Black Bear Studios in Gainesville, Florida, and mastered by Ed Brooks (R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie) at Resonant Mastering.

The cover, created by Samantha Muljat (Earth, Pelican), was inspired by the artwork of Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis, as seen on Pink Floyd’s album covers.

Set and Setting will self-release Reflectionless on January 27th, 2017, on vinyl, CD and digital formats. The band has teamed up with AWAL (Kobalt) to handle the digital release, and with two labels for exclusive color vinyl options in addition to its regular vinyl pressing: Science of Silence Records (US) and Dunk!Records (EU).

Press:

“Lush post-rock with an acerbic metal edge… Melancholic beauty suspended in the clouds with a birds-eye view of epic terrain… Passages of jarring skittish prog turmoil that pull things down to a gritty earthbound level… Soul-searing leads and shimmering, bending guitars that convey feelings of wonder and introspection.”
–Stereogum

“Set and Setting fire up an imagined narrative in each gorgeous, epic instrumental… The sound they create is more like a rugged, red-rock canyon.”

–Paste

“Masters of both mass and craft…”

–Orlando Weekly

Share this
  • Facebook
  • Messenger
  • Twitter
  • Whatsapp
  • Reddit
  • Email

Tags:

  • dunk! records
  • instrumental
  • instrumental metal
  • instrumental rock
  • post metal
  • post rock
  • Science of Silence Records
  • SET AND SETTING

Karol Kamiński

DIY rock music enthusiast and web-zine publisher from Warsaw, Poland. Supporting DIY ethics, local artists and promoting hardcore punk, rock, post rock and alternative music of all kinds via IDIOTEQ online channels.
Contact via [email protected]

You might be interested in

INTEGRITY video

IN SHORTS #10 📢 early Sept. News Roundup feat. loads of new records, incl. BURN, LØVTE, INTEGRITY, TOUCHE AMORE, HÜSKER DÜ and more

Andoni Ros begins his solo journey with “Elsecaller,” a two-minute shift from metal to meditative electronics

You might be interested in

DROUGHT by Alex Zoggas
June 20, 2025

Hardcore band DROUGHT unveil “Wayfinding”, unpack the emotional terrain of “Souvenir”

Pretending by Chris Goreman
June 20, 2025

Screamo act PRETENDING confront impermanence on “Friendships Fading like Sunworn Prints on Your Grandparents’ Wall”

Iron Mind, by Zac Vinko
June 20, 2025

Aussie hardcore power pack IRON MIND reflect on pain, purpose, and persistence with “Test Of The Iron Mind”

MORTAR
June 20, 2025

MORTAR return with a second album of war-fueled nightmares, coming up via five European labels

OF FEATHER AND BONE
Previous Story

OF FEATHER AND BONE achieves encrusted death-grind perfection in their new 2-track release

SOFT KILL!
Next Story

Portland post punk rockers SOFT KILL cover THE CURE

Latest

Upon A Field's Whisper

UPON A FIELD’S WHISPER – “Of Flesh and Wool” reflects on shared humanity in a collapsing world

Suspended In Cobwebs

SUSPENDED IN COBWEBS critiques power and doubles down on dissonance with new EP “Pig Debris”

Pretending by Chris Goreman

Screamo act PRETENDING confront impermanence on “Friendships Fading like Sunworn Prints on Your Grandparents’ Wall”

SHUTDOWN by Rich Zoeller

Hardcore band SHUTDOWN returns with By Your Side, their first new release in 25 years, and announces summer U.S. and European shows

Canary Bones

Australia’s CANARY BONES follow their debut demo with new video for emotionally loaded “Tortfeasor”

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO IDIOTEQ

As an independent magazine IDIOTEQ supports DIY ethics and local artists of all kinds. With no-ads policy and mission to give independent artists space they deserve, IDIOTEQ is a place to get inspired, learn more about lesser known artists and their perspective. Reporting on DIY music is our priority.

DONATE via PayPal or SUPPORT via Patreon

IDIOTEQ (pronounce “idiotec”) is a phonetic transcription of the word Idioteque – the act of suddenly going into a crazy, seizure like state. A vision of a society, where people are increasingly more obsessed with pointless technology, selfishness and mindless entertainment than life itself.
  • Latest
  • New Music
  • News Stories
  • Interviews
  • Exclusive Streams
  • Music Videos
  • Live Videos
  • Tours
  • Festivals