Lakeshore Records release Harry Gregson-Williams's score for the HBO film Confirmation. In July 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to fill Justice Thurgood Marshall’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. In October, during the final days of Thomas’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, both Newsday and NPR broke the story that one of Thomas’s former employees, law professor Anita Hill, had accused him of sexually harassing her ten years earlier. These revelations triggered a maelstrom of events, with both Hill and Thomas testifying about the allegations before a stunned and riveted television audience...

Harry Gregson-Williams turns in a strictly by-the-numbers score for Confirmation. But then this is to be expected as there's no juicy hook for him to hang anything of substance on. There's very little in the way of memorable moments, or riveting themes, instead Gregson-Williams delivers a lot of subtle, beautiful music, which blurs into one piece.

The album contains 15 tracks (39 min, 02 sec), with the only notable aspect, other than it is an impressive, if merely functional score, being that there's a segment of music that reminded me of Bruce Broughton's theme for Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear (1985). This piece of music appears in both the opening and closing tracks of this album.

While an interesting enough soundtrack, there's very little here for you to sink your teeth into. However, fans of subtle music might like to check it out.

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Darren Rea