Parts & Labor return from 15 year hiatus with new album, Set of All Sets

Set of All Sets marks the band's first new album since their 2011 album Constant Future, with lead singles "Endless Cycles Pts. 1-4" — four songs with two each contributed by the band’s principal songwriters, BJ Warshaw and Dan Friel – introducing the album's two halves. Speaking about the songs, the band share: “These songs are mirrors in all manner of ways. Reflective and fragmented, this is our attempt at epitomizing the band we always strove to be. The 'Endless Cycle' is us.”

As the band reunite to end their "indefinite hiatus", with co-founders Warshaw and Friel joined by drummers Christopher Weingarten and Joe Wong, they are directed by a renewed sound inspired by Tanzanian singeli, free improv, and vintage krautrock. Honouring their return, Parts & Labor have also announced tour dates in Los Angeles, San Francisco and NYC with an expanded 6-piece lineup.

Discussing the band's motivation behind the album, Warshaw shares: “If some certain quantum theories are true, everything that might exist, does exist through parallel universes. Grappling with that feels simultaneously full of promise and struck with grief, that anything is possible, but also that this is the universe we’re stuck with. We wanted to turn towards promise, to build this thing against so, so many odds. To fight against our own inertia and fraying hope.”

Set of All Sets artwork

Set of All Sets tracklist

"Endless Cycle Pt. 1: Repetition Nil"
"Endless Cycle Pt. 2: Edges of Forgetting"
"Many Worlds"
"Descending"
"Haunted Limbs"
"Seamripper"
"Arterial Material"
"Anti-Lions and Lemonade"
"Descending"
"Endless Cycle Pt. 3: Better Run"
"Endless Cycle Pt. 4: Working in Storm"
"Indecision Tree"
"Descending"
"Parallel Tracks"
"Off By One"
"Like They're Here to Stay"
"Set of All Sets"