Album Notes

Hello everyone out there who enjoys music! My name is Todd and I am The Ideal Setback. I've been playing music in some way ever since I was four years old (from piano to trumpet to bass and guitar), and in early 2006 I decided I wanted to start recording and making music. To be honest, I originally wanted The Ideal Setback to be a pop-punk band, because most if not all of my influences up to that point had been made up of pop-punk bands (Blink-182, Green Day, The Offspring, etc.). I tried for several months to get a band together to make this happen, but in the end, no one who was available was interested. I really had no clue what I wanted to do at that point. In mid 2007, a good friend of mine introduced me to Ambient music. The very first of this I heard was Sigur Ros, which would then be followed by bands and artists such as The Album Leaf, Eluvium, Hammock, and so on. I had finally found music that I really liked and that I could make by myself. The thoughts of using electronic elements had never really entered my mind. I was focused on guitars, bass, and drums. I decided to work with what instruments and technology I had, and in late September of 2007, I finished my first "demo". It was 6 songs, 15 minutes, and it was only composed of guitar and keyboard synth. I was pleased with what it came out to be, given the short amount of time it took to record and mix, and also because I was still very new to listening and making ambient music. Eventually, I got better recording equipment, and a better understanding of ambient music (finding that Minimalism could play a very big part) and in October I started recording again, recording and mixing the songs which now are to be released on the album "Dream Dialouge". It's a very dark album, but with some sense of beauty in it (at least to me). The cd is available for purchase now on www.cdbaby.com/cd/theidealsetback and will be available through Itunes and most other digital music distributors very soon.