Setting’s mesmerizing, meditative new album Shone a Rainbow Light On is finally here—shipping, in shops, and streaming worldwide. Early critical acclaim includes a 9/10 review by Uncut and a 4/5 review by MOJO, who call it “heavenly.” We agree wholeheartedly. Step into the pocosin.
Discover Setting, a trio comprising Nathan Bowles on strings, keys, and percussion; Jaime Fennelly on harmoniums, synthesizers, and piano zither; and Joe Westerlund on drums, percussion, and metallophones. Shone a Rainbow Light On” sounds like a UFO sinking into a peat bog.
Uncut’s Sounds of the New West CD offers an exclusive premiere of Setting, new trio formed by Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and Joe Westerlund.
As 2018 comes to a close, we are proud to look back on a year of seven new PoB releases and feel honored to have worked with so many inspiring artists. Proud sensations! Several releases from our 2018 catalog were highlighted on notable Best of 2018 lists, so we’d like to say thanks to the authors for their consideration and kind words. Also, check out our “MMXVIII End Times” Playlist.
Many thanks to Pitchfork for their wide-ranging & whip-smart 8.0 Mind Over Mirrors Bellowing Sun review, which proclaims the album “a sci-fi symphony” of “ecstatic hillbilly raga krautrock drone” that ranks as “one of the decade’s true experimental wonders.” Thanks also to Dusted for their kind assessment: “by turns as stilling as a gaze at an oceanic horizon, as remote as an unmapped Appalachian hollow, and as bracing and immersive as a winter gale.”
The spectacular new Mind Over Mirrors album is out today! After nearly three years of composing, rehearsing, building, and preparing, the spectacular Bellowing Sun is finally out in the world. The piece will also receive its live premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago tonight and tomorrow, April 6–7.
Uproxx has premiered a new video for “Matchstick Grip,” filmed by Julia Dratel at MCA Chicago and featuring extensive footage of the band performing beneath the monumental zoetrope that was conceived and built in tandem with the writing and arranging of the music.
The MCA Chicago has released a short film about the process of creating Mind Over Mirrors’ Bellowing Sun performances. The initial run of two performances has sold out, and a 3rd performance has been added at 10 pm CST on Friday, April 6th.
Thanks to Uncut Magazine for their kind and perceptive review of Mind Over Mirrors’ Bellowing Sun, as well as their inclusion of not one, but two album tracks, “Halfway to the Zenith/Oculate Beings,” on the covermount CD of the latest issue. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago performances on April 6–7 are now officially sold out.
Mind Over Mirrors has shared “Vermillion Pink,” a new track that offers a dark, devotional take on the rhythmic drone music perfected on the upcoming double-album Bellowing Sun, along with an in-depth interview with Noisey, who call the album “so powerful, so alive, that it carries a meaning all its own.”
