Set Yourself On Fire. Set Yourself On Fire (CD, Album). Arts & Crafts International, P-Vine Records. This repress is horrendous. Tried two copies - both loaded with non-fill!
It was released on September 14, 2004 on the Arts & Crafts International record label in Canada and the United Kingdom, and on March 8, 2005 in the United States. The album's most notable single was "Ageless Beauty", the band's breakthrough hit in Canada. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" has also garnered significant play in the United States.
Set Yourself On Fire. Set Yourself On Fire Tracklist. 1. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead Lyrics. 2. Set Yourself On Fire Lyrics. 3. Ageless Beauty Lyrics. During a freezing winter, over the course of a month and a half, the band composed their third LP, a lush, ambitious gem of chamber rock, Set Yourself On Fire. As he puts it, Well, it’s where we became a rock ban. e found our ability to combine cacophony and dissonance with heavy, heavy melody. It toughened up our sound and was a big leap for us. Set Yourself On Fire Q&A. There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light. Overview (current section).
And that's before you find the inside shot of a woman in a ski mask and little else, contemplating a flaming hand torch. Vocalists Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan enunciate every word with careful precision, and they sing of remembered high-school romances, dead ex-lovers, and drunk.
The band are all good musicians and every member appears on at least two instruments. Though they may not seem to be the most subtle band (much of this album includes epic string arrangements, brass parts and huge keyboard sounds), it is often the subtlties of songs that make them what they are. For example, "One More Night" doesn't truly develop until a small background electronic noise enters the song . The album's artwork can be compared to the music. After all, what matters on an album such as this is not originality, but how effective the songs are.
An exploration of romance in all its messy glory, Fire is a reminder that breaking up often leads to breaking down. And breaking down is usually the first step to starting over-a theme echoed in the album’s first line, delivered by singer Torquil Campbell’s father: When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. An exploration of romance in all its messy glory, Fire is a reminder that breaking up often leads to breaking down.
Set Yourself on Fire is about breaking up and breaking down, and as such the album feels wontedly cathartic, like the moments right after you hit your emotional nadir and start getting your shit together. Save "The Big Fight"- which is tame, slow and lounged-out- there's no controversy, only half-smiles and the soggy aftermath. But even the dearest numbers have faint, nagging undercurrents.
