Tracks
- My Denial
- The Ways And Wounds (of my world)
- A Single White Rose
- Somewhere
- Love's Way
- To Love Her
- A Simple Glance
- The Truth About Gina
- Lost
- I Cannot Believe
- Goodbye
- The Great Pretender
- March One
- King of Loneliness
- Solemn Sun Setting
- Who Are You?
Solemn Sun Setting is Human Drama's first studio album since Songs of Betrayal in 1995. The new disc contains elements of all their prior recordings. Human Drama typically set their goals high, and they feel they've achieved what they set out to do with this recording, which is to create a timeless CD. Lyrically it is painfully real, musically as emotional as the subject matter. An added highlight is the group's interpretation of one of their major inspirations with Tom Waits' "Who Are You?"
A review from Rollingstone.com By the time
Solemn Sun Setting appeared, it was ten years on from Human Drama's brush with mainstream fame via
Feel, but to Indovina's credit, where lesser musicians and acts would have long since given up, he just seems to keep getting better and better. Working again with much the same group as on Songs of Betrayal -- notably drummer C.J. Eiriksson and keyboardist Mark Balderas, along with violinist Jamii Szmadzinski continuing his excellent work from 14,384 Days Later -- on
Solemn Sun Setting Indovina comes up with his best album since The World Inside -- indeed his best yet. The understated but strong vibe on
Songs of Betrayal that looked beyond simple goth rock classifications flowers ever more strongly here, Indovina and company touching on everything from moody Doors-reminiscent compositions to piano/string ballads and back again. Having covered "Caroline Says II" by Lou Reed on
Pin-Ups, Indovina tries a song of his own in that vein, "The Truth About Gina," and it's a lovely wonder. At some of the softest points, like the gorgeous "Goodbye" and "A Single White Rose," Indovina shows his highest register yet, all still while retaining the careful control he always shows. There's even one of the hardest rocking tracks the band has yet recorded -- the stuttering riffs and rumbling drums and bongos of "The Ways and Wounds (Of My World)" -- but it's nothing like
Feel's arrested developments, Indovina's vocals slyer and purring here, his guitar work avoiding polish for a forceful, gut-felt punch. Continuing a near-constant tradition of cover songs, Human Drama revisit the Tom Waits songbook at the end, and an inspired choice it is -- the wracked "Who Are You?," one of that musician's best ever compositions, Indovina delivering it with all the suffused passion appropriate. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
A review from redsunrecords.nl Musically for nearly a decade, Human Drama has collectively pieced together a continually growing puzzle of the trials and tribulations one goes through in life. Once more, a title as passionate as it is clear,
Solemn Sun Setting is like an open book waiting to be read. For the listener, it is important to take time to listen and you then realize those lyrics hold the key in understanding many things about ourselves and others.
Solemn Sun Setting, brings 16 wonderful tracks to choose from. R.S.R favorites include, "Who Are You", "My Denial", and "Goodbye". This album is impressively done to what many have come to expect from such great musicians.