This 10-tracker is an electro-hip satire of our popular Culture – Radioinactive describes it better, “It’s like a chain reaction where pop culture, the last continent of Atlantis, and your girlfriend’s ass collide in a kind of reactor core meltdown of the collective unconscious.”
Soundtrack to a Book releases the bull from many angles at once, with a unique new hip hop sound. Radioinactive spreads thoughts poking fun of the ridiculousness of today’s constructed identities and transforms these thoughts into an amusement park ride of a beat.
Upon first listen, I was a fan of the album’s off the wall satire. I could definitely recognize elements of Busdriver, who collaborated with Radio for their 2003 release The Weather. Radioinactive was also a member of Log Cabin Crew with underground frontiers of yesteryear: Murs, Eligh,and Scarab. This brief history definitely indicates that Radioinactive is one of today’s most exciting new talents.
Soundtrack to a Book is a mess of enjoyable lyrical details. Having it only a couple of days, it has nonetheless already become very familiar to my CD and DVD player both. My only issue is that it’s quite short –not necessarily a bad or good thing – lately, records have had tendency towards brevity and it is unwise in this day and age to release a longer album just for the sake of quantity. Even though I was left wanting more, Soundtrack to a Book is a very enjoyable album.
I will continue to explore the Radioactive and his hip hop contemporaries and will eagerly a live show.
Soundtrack to a Book should be on the New York Times Bestseller list.
