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From the album Dig Your Own Hole

Single30 September 1996Atomic number 7

Setting Sun

Setting Sun artwork
Artwork (quoted for review and commentary)2

Ground #F2F1ECInk 1 #000000Ink 2 #8A8A85Accent #000000Unprinted (plate colours pending)

Contrast　body 18.6:1　heading 18.6:1

Pulse 135 BPM (measured)

Listen

The video embedded on the official site1　Open on YouTube

Record

Released
30 September 19963
UK peak
No. 14
Certifications
BPI: Silver4
Notes
Noel Gallagher asked to work with the duo after hearing "Life Is Sweet"5
Notes
Noel could not appear in the video; Tom and Ed made a cameo as themselves, a habit that continued in later videos6
Notes
MTV cited the video as an inspiration when it shifted its format towards electronica6

Tracklist

  1. 1Setting Sun – Full Length Version2
  2. 2Setting Sun – Radio Edit2
  3. 3Buzz Tracks2
  4. 4Setting Sun – Instrumental2

Music

BPM
135 BPM
Key
Cm (5A)

Technology

Context

Testimony

Reviews

“as soon as it finished, I played it again”

Melody Maker, Taylor Parkes7

“rave sirens, screeching guitars, and a buzzing midsection where the bottom drops out”

Pitchfork, Marc Hogan8

View (DJ Naoyaman)

The singer isn't in the video.

Released on 30 September 1996 and sung by Noel Gallagher, it went to No. 1 in the UK, their first.349

Dom and Nic made the video. Noel couldn't make the shoot. What we see instead is a girl coming apart at an all-night free party, and Tom and Ed leaving it with their record boxes. That brief cameo carried on through their later videos.6

When MTV in America announced a shift in focus from alternative rock to electronica, it cited this video as one of its inspirations.6

I call this the absent lead. With the most famous voice missing from the screen, the rave's side of the picture took the lead role.

In 2022, Rolling Stone put the song in its 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time.5

Translated from the Japanese original.

Afterwards

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  1. The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Setting Sun (video)”
  2. The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Setting Sun (release page)”
  3. Wikipedia, “Dig Your Own Hole”
  4. Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
  5. Wikipedia, “Setting Sun (The Chemical Brothers song)”
  6. Wikipedia, “Dom and Nic”
  7. Melody Maker, “Melody Maker, Setting Sun review”
  8. Pitchfork, “Pitchfork: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s (Setting Sun entry)”
  9. Clash, “10 Things You Never Knew About… The Chemical Brothers”