Out on Friday via the Arizona based SubGoth / ECR label (you can order it now on Bandcamp) is the all new 2-track single, “Year V” / “How Do We Stay Together”, by ΣΕΘ(SET). For this single Francisco Mendez returned to a moody and witch house vibe. Lyrically the two tracks delve into lost love and the agony of rejection.

The single is the first new material since 2022’s “Spooks, Specters & Ghosts” album and “If I Find A Way (I Would Disappear Into The Night)” single.

Below is a video for “Year V”.

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Out on the SubGoth label is the first new single, “Altered Reality”, for ΣΕΘ(SET), the project by label founder Francisco Mendez who is a witch-house producer based in Sahuarita, Arizona.

The single is the first single from the project’s 4th full length album. “Altered Reality” sees the project diving into industrial and midtempo bass while keeping the project’s dark aesthetic.

Francisco : “Drawing inspiration from industrial bass and midtempo bass music, the song explores the depths of the human psyche, delving into themes of chaos, destruction, and despair.”

Out now via the SubGoth Bandcamp page, the single will be available on Spotify & Beatport / worldwide on May 12th.

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Genre/Influences: Witch-House, Minimal-Electro.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: “Spooks, Spectres And Ghosts” is the third full length released by American producer Francisco Mendez aka ΣΕΘ -or simply Set.

Content: The sound universe of this artist is inspired -like the title indicates, by dark themes like horror, occultism ao. It has been reflected in Minimal-Electro composition with fragmented vocals and slow rhythms. I noticed Trance-driven leads, but the global sound atmosphere is carried by cold, icy, sound treatments.

+ + + : Sound-wise this album has something magic. Dark themes have been transposed into slow, sensual, rhythms while the sound production is pure ‘modernism’. Set is mixing different music genres and will even catch the attention of open-minded Electro-Pop lovers in search of something ‘new’. The work reveals a succession of cool, noticeable cuts always carried by this fascinating, cold, sound production.

– – – : I regret most of the cuts aren’t a bit longer, but you don’t hear me complaining.

Conclusion: Thinking about Witch-House themes you can only, from time to time, discover true sonic alchemists and Set definitely belongs to that experience in sound.

Best songs: “Dominion”, “Asylum”, “All We Need Is Time”, “It Was My Last Day”, “I Hate You”.

Rate: 8.

Artist: www.facebook.com/churchofset

Label: www.facebook.com/remissionentertainment

About ΣΕΘ

ΣΕΘ, also styled Set, is the Witch-House and Minimal-Electro project of Francisco Mendez, based in Sahuarita, Southern Arizona. Mendez has been active as ΣΕΘ since a 2018 debut single, “The Curse”, followed by the singles “Themes For Impure Thoughts” (2019) and “Where Dreams Come To Pause…” (2020). Side-Line covered the announcement of “Spooks, Spectres And Ghosts” in July 2022, released on Re:Mission Entertainment / El Cuco Recordings, marking the project’s third full-length album.

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From Southern Arizona comes ΣΕΘ (SET), a project that mixes industrial, pop noir, witch house and future bass into a subgoth sound. Out now via Re:Mission Entertainment / El Cuco Recordings is the project’s third album “Spooks, Specters & Ghosts”.

You can expect the project to be performing throughout the year in support of new releases. Behind the Sahuarita based act we find Francisco Mendez who has been active with ΣΕΘ (SET) since 2018 debuting with the single “The Curse”. Since then 3 albums followed next to a string of singles, namely “Themes For Impure Thoughts” (2019), “Where Dreams Come To Pause…” (2020) and now “Spooks, Specters & Ghosts”.

The release can be ordered via Bandcamp, you cal already check it out below.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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