Setting the Woods on Fire
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| Setting the Woods on Fire | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | January and February 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Ironwood, Hanzek Audio; mixed at Robert Lang | |||
| Genre | Rock[1] | |||
| Length | 63:12 | |||
| Label | Creative Man/Cargo[2] | |||
| Producer | Ed Brooks, the Walkabouts | |||
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Setting the Woods on Fire is a studio album by the Walkabouts.[3]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Calgary Herald | B+[4] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
Jason Ankeny, for AllMusic, wrote: "A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St."[1] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a strong collection of original material."[5] Trouser Press called it "consistently ace," writing that "strong tunes like 'Firetrap', 'Good Luck Morning' and the rousing, horn-driven 'Hole in the Mountain' [are] given a spiky, full-bodied grace."[6] Uncut deemed it an "underselling classic" that "captures perfectly [the band's] haunted experimentalism."[7] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album's "disposition is pensive and vaguely ominous throughout."[8]
