| Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static | ||||
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| Released | 8 April 2003 | |||
| Recorded | July – August 2002 | |||
| Length | 88:20 | |||
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| Set Fire to Flames chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork Media | (5.3/10)[1] |
| Almost Cool |    [2] |
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.
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 album's 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.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 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 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 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 |
