Hot Roddy is one of the names Chris Cook remains music
under, the other being Same Actor.
I have known Chris for a few years and have ceased to be surprised
how different his stuff can vary constantly from the other.
His previous album under the name of Same Actor called Sharp
Edges which was released on the Bip Hop label was a brilliant mixture
of live sitar and other mostly live acoustic instrumentation remodelled
through his laptop so it sounds like something completely different with
beauitful affect.
This new album is a good deal harsher and somewhat more menacing
throughout with tracks like the opening 'Half Life Paritial Suicide'
starting off with some great live instrumentation before it starts
changing into something very different altogether, which leaves
you sat there by the end of the track shocked as he has shown
more ideas in that track than some bands /acts manage in a full career.
The second track 'Crust Mantle Hell' is even more intense, certainly
reminding correctly as another review I read while thinking about this
album as part early Aphex Twin, part Gabba certainly in the first half
of the track before then morphing off into a muscial territory which
is pretty well hard to put into any kind of genre and on tracks like
the third track 'Know your Deficiencies' and on the finale track 'Desolation'
demand repeated listens to let the track and indeed the full of the album
develop in his head.
This is certainly not a album for fans of pop music, rather people who
like their music to challenge and in some cases downright scare them
into a sense they do not know what is going to happen next from one
minute to the next.
Recommended.
To read further on Chris - please visit him on his website
He has several (mostly unreleased tracks) for download on his
myspace.com page (http://www.myspace.com/sameactor) and
you can hear snips of a few tracks on this album on this website (http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=32025)
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