3/22/2023

INDIE ROCK-FOLK BAND SETTING SUN SHARE SPIRITED SINGLE & LYRIC VIDEO "COOL" OUT NOW

INDIE ROCK-FOLK BAND
SETTING SUN
SHARE SPIRITED SINGLE & LYRIC VIDEO
"COOL"
OUT NOW


THE SELF-PRODUCED
SIXTH FULL-LENGTH
STUDIO ALBUM
THE FEELINGS CURE
IS DUE OUT MAY 19
VIA YOUNG LOVE RECORDS


JOIN SETTING SUN
FOR THE OFFICIAL ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
ON MAY 18 AT THE COLONY
IN WOODSTOCK, NY


“Dramatic and poignant!”
“Incredibly well-crafted songs”
"Setting Sun create an Arcade Fire urgency, creating sweeping orchestrations, driving rhythms"
Photo credit: Steve Kennedy
Today, the Hudson Valley, NY based indie rock-folk band Setting Sun share sweet single and lyric video, "Coolout everywhere now. The lively, acoustic guitar-driven track captures the multi-faceted paradoxes of what it means to love life. The band's self-produced first album in ten years, The Feelings Cure is due out May 19 via Young Love Records and is available for pre-order now. Plus, join Setting Sun live in Woodstock, NY for their official album release show on May 18. Tickets are on sale now via settingsuntheband.com.

The bright, acoustic track "Cool," out today, was initially made for a Coke commercial, and after not winning the spot, Levitt was left with a song he loved. Levitt shares, "I got hired to write 60 seconds of music to go along with a final edit of a commercial. I ended up writing a song I loved and not getting the commercial. I then got to rework it and make it a full song. It’s a spirited story of a love for life captured through the beauty, confusion and paradoxes the world presents itself as."

With the newest, most comprehensive body of work yet on the horizon, Setting Sun is ready to re-introduce themselves. In the band's current iteration, alongside Levitt are long-time collaborators Lawrence Roper (keyboards, vocals) and Jonathan Hambright (drums) and John Burdick (bass/vocals).

The forthcoming sixth studio album by Setting Sun, The Feelings Cure, was recorded like no other Setting Sun record––diligently. Explaining the creative process and creating the album while now being a father, Levitt says, "I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get in the creative zone with set times of having to turn creativity on and off like a switch. I used to write and record in creative blasts when I felt it come on like a wave or virus. Having kids forced me to write, record, and mix within the gaps of being a father. The maturity shows on this record."

Over ten rich tracks, Levitt turns inward to blend genres and juxtapose upbeat instrumentals and production with melancholic lyrics. Unafraid to take risks and allowing himself to create without reserve, the album chronicles Levitt further discovering himself and his artistry, culminating in the band's most realized work to date.

While producing the album, Levitt learned to listen to himself and how he was feeling to best use his time and play to his strengths. "I produced this record myself in my studio and enlisted friends to lay down some tracks like drums, harmonies, violins, etc. One trick I learned is to be aware of my mood. If I wasn’t feeling a creative wave, I’d then do some mixing. If I was in the creative zone, I’d sit and write and record a part to one of the songs." The creative process became casual, free-flowing and unforced. Levitt says, "Most of the sounds you hear on this record were written and recorded simultaneously, so you’re getting the raw thing, not a reenactment of the moment it was written, this is the moment."

The latest release follows the previously shared "Feelings Cure," a track that aims to resist feelings of pain and sadness through music. Levitt says the track is about "denial and playing music and finding a cure for sadness or pain." Written three months into the start of the pandemic, Levitt was forced to confront the reality of diving back into music, only this time, in quarantine with his wife and toddler which presented brand new challenges. Levitt adds, "It took a while to be able to turn on the creativity at will according to the clock, but I found it was actually possible. The limitations made me more productive. This song was one of the first I recorded for the new record and maybe it helped get out some of that frustration from being forced into a new life and future not made by my choice."


Setting Sun will celebrate the release of their first album in ten years album with a show at Colony in Woodstock, NY on May 18. The following month, on June 3, the band will play at Dogwood in Beacon, NY and later, June 15, the band will perform at Riverside Concerts in Germantown, NY. Tickets are available now via settingsuntheband.com.

Setting Sun, led by frontman and primary songwriter Gary Levitt, began in San Francisco where the band's first release, holed up, was recorded in 2003. From there, Levitt moved to Los Angeles, then to Brooklyn, NY and now resides in the Hudson Valley of New York. After holed up came Math And Magic the following year and caught the attention of Pittsburgh City Paper who wrote "Isolation" from the album, "brought together the dramatic delivery with a set of lyrics spilling out with a poetic skill rarely heard in any style of music." Four years later, Children of the Wild arrived, and PopMatters wrote the band's third album is characterized by "delicate, hushed vocals and well-crafted pop songs." In 2010, Setting Sun released Fantasurreal, and three years later came Be Here When You Get Here in 2013.

"Cool" out everywhere now, explores the ebbs and flows of life and all of its contradictions. The Feelings Cure, the forthcoming sixth studio album by Setting Sun is due out May 19 and is available to pre-order now via Young Love Records. Join the band live for their official album release show in Woodstock, NY on May 18, and later, in Beacon, NY on June 3 and Germantown, NY on June 15. Tickets are on sale now here. CDs are available for purchase here, and connect with Setting Sun on InstagramFacebook, and YouTube to stay up-to-date for much more from the rising band.


The Feelings Cure Tracklisting (LP)


01. Cool 
02. Sometimes  
03. Can’t Send It Back  
04. Counting the Cows  
05. Good Die Young  
06. Up and Away
07. Same Face    
08. A Symphony  
09. Feelings Cure  
10. Once Had a While
Photo Credit: Steve Kennedy 
Setting Sun Bio:

Quality songwriting never goes out of style. Six records into his career as the front person and principal songwriter of Setting Sun, Gary Levitt shares much with the indie rock of the early 2000s: its spirit of renewed innocence, the poetics of personal candor, and the conscious refusal of irony and snark. But Levitt’s indie aesthetic is also laced with influences from the angst-rock 90s, and the songs of The Feelings Cure are permissive of more than a little darkness.

On this latest record, hyper-melodic, catchy choruses alternate with bedroom-symphonic mood pieces, baroque waltzes, and downhill, propulsive rockers, all decorated by a mixture of experimental synth and moody string orchestrations. A central element of Setting Sun is the dichotomy of somber lyrics layered over upbeat driving rhythms, and The Feelings Cure delivers in abundance. A sonic, harmonic, or lyrical surprise lurks around every corner.

Gary Levitt began Setting Sun in San Francisco, where their first release, Holed Up, was recorded. Later he migrated to Los Angeles and then Brooklyn, finally settling in the scenic mid-Hudson Valley of New York (Kingston, Woodstock). His songs have appeared in a number of television shows, commercials, and a few international films. The current Setting Sun live lineup features Levitt and long-time collaborators Lawrence Roper (keyboards, vocals) and Jonathan Hambright (drums). They are joined in this incarnation by bassist and vocalist John Burdick.
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