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R.I.P.'s infrequent flirtations with the dancefloor should not surprise those who checked Darren Cunningham's post-Splazsh singles. Despite being issued on 12" vinyl, "Harrier ATTK" and "Rainy Dub" would have evacuated any floor within a few seconds. None of the four tracks from those releases reappears on R.I.P., but they foreshadowed this hourlong album's completely abstract, mostly ambient composition. One exception aside, the few jacking and pulsing rhythms function more as secondary elements than focal points, swathed in fuzzy textures, mechanical drones, baleful strings, and vocal micro-samples. The majority of the album places Actress closer to the superbly creative, evocative, and mind-altering terrain inhabited by Oneohtrix Point Never, with detectable traces of early-'80s Roedelius and Moebius, as well as Autechre; there's nearly no likeness to any of the club-oriented contemporaries on the producer's Werk label. As with Splazsh, there is no template. The tracks bear little relation to one another and could have been arranged in any sequence. That said, the thrillingly scuffy friction of "The Lord's Graffiti" -- where Actress could steal and redefine Pere Ubu's "avant-garage" neologism, moving it from garage rock to U.K. garage -- seems to fade in at the perfect moment, at track 13 (of 15).
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Cunningham, Composer - Actress, MainArtist - Westbury Music, MusicPublisher - Darren, Composer
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
Review: R.I.P. - Actress
R.I.P.'s infrequent flirtations with the dancefloor should not surprise those who checked Darren Cunningham's post-Splazsh singles. Despite being issued on 12" vinyl, "Harrier ATTK" and "Rainy Dub" would have evacuated any floor within a few seconds. None of the four tracks from those releases reappears on R.I.P., but they foreshadowed this hourlong album's completely abstract, mostly ambient composition. One exception aside, the few jacking and pulsing rhythms function more as secondary elements than focal points, swathed in fuzzy textures, mechanical drones, baleful strings, and vocal micro-samples. The majority of the album places Actress closer to the superbly creative, evocative, and mind-altering terrain inhabited by Oneohtrix Point Never, with detectable traces of early-'80s Roedelius and Moebius, as well as Autechre; there's nearly no likeness to any of the club-oriented contemporaries on the producer's Werk label. As with Splazsh, there is no template. The tracks bear little relation to one another and could have been arranged in any sequence. That said, the thrillingly scuffy friction of "The Lord's Graffiti" -- where Actress could steal and redefine Pere Ubu's "avant-garage" neologism, moving it from garage rock to U.K. garage -- seems to fade in at the perfect moment, at track 13 (of 15).
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:59
- Main artists: Actress
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Honest Jon's Records
- Genre: Electronic
(C) 2012 Honest Jon's Records (P) 2012 Honest Jon's Records
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