52 soundnw.com With a new hip-hop-inspired album, Chris Cornell seems to be running from his rock band past. but the former Soundgarden frontman is so much more complicated than that (which you would know if you followed him on twitter). Story by Clint Brownlee n the seventh floor of Seattle?s slick new Four Seasons hotel, Chris Cornell?s wife, Vicky, and security man, Leroy, are settling into a warm, posh suite with a stunning view of the Puget Sound. It?s an appropriate place to meet Cornell as he passes through his native city; the flashy, expensive high-rise mirrors the slick electronic beats and arrangements of his new Timbaland-produced album, Scream. Next door, the Lusty Lady, Seattle?s perennial peep house, exudes a dark, loud, unapologetic grittiness that is a ringer for early Soundgarden records. The two extremes live side-by-side, pleasing some and offending others. chriscornell My wife picks great hotels. This one reminds me of our apartment in Paris, minus the french speaking ghosts.