Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static

Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static
Studio album by Set Fire to Flames
Released	8 April 2003
Recorded	July 2002 - August 2002
Genre	Post rock; Experimental music
Length	88:20
Label	Alien8 Recordings ALIEN39; FatCat Records
Set Fire to Flames chronology

Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static is a double album by the Canadian musical collective, Set Fire to Flames. The album was recorded in the span of several months in late 2002, and was then published by both Alien8 Recordings and FatCat Records in 2003.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork Media	(5.3/10)[1]
Almost Cool	[2]

The album itself was recorded in a barn in rural Ontario, Canada. The recording atmosphere was decidedly informal—the sounds of the band members talking and moving around can be readily heard during the albums quiet moments.[3] Like their first album, Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static was recorded "in states of little or no sleep, in varying levels of intoxication, and in physical confinement."[3]

The release utilizes many different instruments, including guitars, basses, strings, horns, glockenspiel, marimba, bass clarinet, cymbalon, hurdy-gurdy, music boxes, modified electronics, saw, and contact microphones.

Track listing

Disc one – *Telegraphs in Negative*
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Déjà, comme des trous de vent, comme reproduit"	6:43
2.	"Small Steps Against Inertia/Echo of a Dead End"	3:01
3.	"Measure de Mésure"	4:45
4.	"Holy Throat Hiss Tracts to the Sedative Hypnotic"	3:38
5.	"When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts"	3:11
6.	"Kill Fatigue Frequencies"	1:28
7.	"In Prelight Isolate"	15:11
8.	"Tehran in Seizure/Telegraphs in Negative"	5:56

Disc two – *Mouths Trapped in Static*
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Your Guts Are Like Mine"	2:15
2.	"Fukt Perkusiv/Something About Bad Drugs, Schizophrenics and Grain Silos..."	8:11
3.	"Sleep Maps"	11:52
4.	"Something About Eva Mattes in the Halo of Exploding Street Lamps..."	1:47
5.	"Buzz of Barn Flies Like Faulty Electronics"	3:39
6.	"And the Birds Are About to Bust Their Guts with Singing"	4:52
7.	"Rites of Spring Reverb"	3:33
8.	"Mouths Trapped in Static"	2:27
9.	"This Thing Between Us Is a Rickety Bridge of Impossible Crossing/Bonfires for Nobody..."	5:33

Personnel

Beckie Foon: cello
Bruce Cawdron: drums, percussion, marimba
Christof Migone: gutted two-track motors, contact mics, faulty electronics
David Bryant: guitar, tapes
Fluffy Erskine: saw, percussion, music box, tapes
Genevieve Heistek: viola
Gordon Krieger: bass clarinet
Jean-Sébastien Truchy: electric bass, double bass, music box
Mike Moya: guitar, tapes
Roger Tellier-Craig: guitar, CD player, tapes
Sophie Trudeau: violin, glockenspiel, trumpet
Thea Pratt: French horn

References

Pitchfork Media review
Almost Cool review
"Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static by Set Fire to Flames". alien8recordings.com. Alien8 Recordings. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-20.

External links

Informational page on Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static from official set fire to flames website

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[1] Pitchfork Media review

[2] Almost Cool review

[alien8-3] "Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static by Set Fire to Flames". alien8recordings.com. Alien8 Recordings. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-20.