The 1999 album from Bardo Pond. Bardo Pond wages intensity like none other. The music is a foaming, unbridled creature, constantly reinventing itself to unexplored parameters of Outness. Bardo Pond is your band. It's the one you put on while sleeping late in your parents' rec room basement, soaking up air-conditioning and watching wrestling on mute. They don't just scare the shit out of people. They're also damn incredible. Each song on Set And Setting carefully builds a monolith of beauty, indulging the parameters of sound with thoughtful consideration as to what will buzz between the drumbeats before being obliterated. Listen in through the layers of confusion to hear the inner structure of how the noise is contained--it's not unconditioned feedback but composed chaos, seething with soulful emotion set to slow tempo.