Nothing Upsetting About Setting Sun

23 Jul

Setting Sun began in 2001 in a San Francisco apartment by the one and only Gary Levitt. On June 10th Levitt released the third album from Setting Sun called Children Of The Wind out on Young Love Records. Collaborating on this album is label mate Erica Quitzow(who is the band Quitzow…more on her later) who plays all of the strings on the album. Quitzow, Levitt, and friends recorded Children Of The Wind entirely in their 19th century Victorian house. Out of their unique home recording environment comes a sometimes grand, sometimes hushed, sometimes eerie expanse of folk based songs. Though the production swirls from one emotion to the next, the one constant is Gary Levitt’s coarse yet fragile vocals (the closest I can relate to them is Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow). They sound good. As for the album as a whole, Children Of The Wind first came across as disjointed, but as I spun it ’round a few more times, I found the underlying current of Levitt’s spirited delivery powerful enough to hold together this diary of mystery and sentiment. Photo by Amber S. Clark