It was five years of waiting. Finally , the Red Hot Chili Peppers presented the successor of I'm With You, a dispensable album, which contributes little in his discography. Only the anecdote, a faint point in its history.
In this work he debuted Josh Klinghoffer on a studio album as a replacement for John Frusciante, a big loss for the band that still feels. On that occasion benevolence it was greater. He had to give the opportunity to the young musician, who then jutted into the composition with the rest of the band.
Time passed and increased the expectation. A month ago it is available The Getaway, the first without Rick Rubin as producer from the essential Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991).
The musicians are not surprising, but neither disappoints. It's a nice album, with a first half good songs, necessary to show that the California group explore other ways without leaving aside entirely its most characteristic sounds, funk influences remain clear, but more attenuated. Accommodate other interests and concerns raised during recent years.
This time is not the case with By The Way (2002), that strange surprise that several cost after Californication (1999) digest. At that time, perhaps one could not understand immediately what they were doing, but eventually one rediscovering a powerful, brave and with the clear intention to make it clear that the Red Hot Chili Peppers were not intended to be typecast disk.
The Getaway concrete what they could not achieve in I'm With You, the to venture into a stage where more sedate prevail compositions, but also sticky. AND
In this album there is greater consistency and better achieved issues. From the first song until the eighth no waste, then begins to decline forced the interest pieces, as if suddenly repent to follow that path and seek desperately to evoke the past of a sharp shape. It does not, is artificial.
The table wobbles yet. Largely the problem with the group is the lack of Frusciante, his creativity and passion with the instrument. There is no denying that when you listen to the guitar, one often think that will leave part of his soul in every note. His solo work further demonstrates that the gear is missing to the search of his former companions.
They say comparisons are odious but inevitable. Klinghoffer is a good performer of the instrument, but it shows that still does not come out of the shadow of his predecessor. Even in live performances they have had, his skill is noted, but there is still that something that makes unforgettable the great guitarists.
Recently in an Argentine channel they interviewed Anthony Kiedis, who asked about his relationship with Frusciante. The singer said that while the obvious distanced routine parts, strange. Yearns especially those moments when composing music fortuitously, with just express a feeling.
The Getaway, despite the absences, is a good album that could have been shorter to avoid saturating with unnecessary attempts to return to a sound that is not according to the original nature of production.
