Three years and as many live albums have passed since Setting’s debut album. In that time, the trio of Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and Joe Westerlund have sharply fine-tuned their form of exploratory electronic Appalachian drone music, and their new, self-titled album finds them on a heightened plane. The chemistry built between these three players over the last few years comes alive here in…

On their self-titled album (and their first recordings for the Thrill Jockey label) North Carolina group Setting takes rustic acoustic sounds into deep space, sitting around a cosmic campfire and creating a group sound that’s naturalistically beautiful and mysterious. The trio of Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and Joe Westerlund work in both improvisation and composition […]

Time for “Gum Bump” to get the ‘Gum bump. Now that we here at Stereogum dot com have posted the latest single from Setting’s self-titled sophomore stunner, surely the streams will begin to flow. Lead single “Heard A Bubble” was sort of like backwoods krautrock, whereas the instrumental trio’s latest is woozy experimental funk that…

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