Setting Sun



"Setting Sun" is a song by The Chemical Brothers with vocals by Noel Gallagher. It was released as a single in 1996 from their second album Dig Your Own Hole and reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.

Pitchfork Media ranked it at number 43 in their list of the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s. The Guardian called it, alongside Underworld's "Born Slippy .NUXX", the "most experimental and sonically extreme hit [single] of the 90s."

Samples
Gallagher used an old Oasis song, "Comin' On Strong", as the basis for the lyrics to Setting Sun.

Music video
The video was directed by Dom and Nic and features artist Lexi Strauss. In the video, it shows the prospect of a rave party through the eyes of a bewildered young woman. It can be seen the woman chasing a personification of her nightmare through the party. The video mixes a disturbing psychological confusion with moments of humoristic imagination (for example: the woman sees police dancing breakdance). The Chemical Brothers played a cameo role as themselves leaving the party with their record cases. The cameo has become a tradition which continues in many of the Chemical Brothers' videos to date.

Featured in other media

 * The instrumental version of the song is featured in the 1997 film The Saint.
 * The song is featured in the 1997 film Nightwatch.
 * The song was used as the closing credits to Nine Network Australia's Formula 1 coverage in 1998–99.
 * In 2008, the track features on The Inbetweeners, in the episode 'Thorpe Park', when the characters ride on the Nemesis Inferno, and in an episode of The Real Hustle.
 * In 2013, the song featured in an advert for the Hyundai ix35 and in an episode of My Mad Fat Diary.