It's not Ryo, it's Rio, and the name doesn't really suit him. It's sounds a little too exotic for a squat Japanese bloke covered with scary tattoos and sporting a skinhead haircut.

His thank-you to garage bands -- Gasoline, New Bomb Turks, 5.6.7.8's, etc. -- on the jacket of "D.D.R.P." doesn't make much sense, either. It would seem more appropriate if the list was headed by the scuzzy punk/folk of, say, Eels, early Beck and Royal Trux.

Yokohama-based Rio Ishida is best-known for terrifying live-houses in the punk band Room 41, but with his first solo release -- under the guise of Deedees -- we get to examine his soft underbelly and it's almost cute, but certainly not smooth and hairless.