Roentgen (album)

Infobox Album | Name = ROENTGEN
Type = Album
Artist = Hyde


Released = March 27, 2002
Recorded = 2001, 2002
Genre = Rock, Pop
Length = 48:36
Label = HAUNTED RECORDS, Ki/oon Records
Producer = HYDE
Reviews =
Last album = | This album = "ROENTGEN"
(2002)
Next album = "Roentgen Overseas Version"
(2002) |

Released March 27, 2002, Roentgen was the first solo album of popular Japanese vocalist, Hyde, released by his own label, Haunted Records, a division of Sony's Ki/oon Records, and the record was co-produced by Hyde and UK production team Ian Curnow and Dave Ford. The album leans towards the softer side of rock music, with crisp, wintery "White Song" and the beautiful imagery of "A Drop of Colour". The beautiful, wrenching vocals that Hyde is known to pour out can be heard in "Shallow Sleep" or "The Cape of Storms", balancing out the album.

"The Cape of Storms" is featured in the film "" The song is said to be based on an Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman". "Shallow Sleep" was also featured on the U.S.-released CD "The JPop CD".

Hyde's second solo album 666 is commonly thought of as the companion and opposite of Roentgen.

Track listing

# "Unexpected"
# "White Song"
# "Evergreen"
# "Oasis"
# "A Drop of Colour"
# "Shallow Sleep"
# "New Day's Dawn"
# "Angel's Tale"
# "The Cape of Storms"
# "Secret Letters"