Cool Rock

Chris Lee, Chris Lee | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Misra Records
• ASIN: B00009B8DA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,694 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Experimental jazz sounds un-"COOL" and evidently un-"ROCK", September 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cool Rock (Audio CD)

Mention the title of this album to someone and await the universal signal of disinterest...no response. Play the album and receive more of the same.

Chris Lee's cliched metaphors and ambitious song titles display a songwriter in need of some soul searching, but he deserves credit for singing about his limitations I suppose albeit unknowingly.

Witness the following lyric, "I'm just a man who sings what I know, oooh oooh oooh ooohhh say it ain't soul," he coos his lines amidst the backdrop of formless and unexpressed guitar strums. The rest of the album features displaced jazz chords which puntuate the recording's lack of cohesion and unity.

This is hardly the stuff of lyrical genius. Call it indie rock with no driving sound. Folk with no meaning. Rock with no influences. Neo-soul devoid of profundity. Whatever you label it, the pretentiousness of COOL ROCK begs the listener for a wistful refund of the 30 minutes you spent listening for the music which never surfaces.

Sadly, Chris Lee has a beautiful falsetto buried within discorded notes and meaningless phrases. His voice is better appreciated in his previous records where the song arrangements are crisp, structured and emotive.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lee's best yet, November 29, 2003

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A Fan (Charleston, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cool Rock (Audio CD)

An amazing amalgamation of sounds. From the notes Lee hits in "Lately" to the horns in "Symphony", it's one of the best albums out in the past couple of years, and by far Lee's best album yet. However, not even a comparison to Lee live.