release date: Feb. 1, 2005
format: cd (2009 reissue)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: John Frusciante
label: The Record Collection - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "The Past Recedes" (4,5 / 5) - 2. "Lever Pulled" (3,5 / 5) - 3. "Anne" (3,5 / 5) - 5. "A Name" - 6. "Control" - 7. "Your Warning" - 9. "Ascension" - 10. "Time Tonight"
7th solo album by John Frusciante following less than three months after Inside of Emptiness (Oct. 2004). In 2004 he released Shadows Collide With People (Feb.), The Will to Death (Jun.), with the project-band Ataxia Automatic Writing (Aug.), the solo ep DC EP (Sep.), Inside of Emptiness (Oct.), and a collaboration album with Josh Klinghoffer: A Sphere in the Heart of Silence (Nov.); and after all that he released this in Feb. 2005.
Not only is he enormously productive in this period, he also manages to write great songs, AND to compose music that differs, being however, still very true to his expression. This is not like any of the other albums. The umbrella style is still alt rock, a genre he stays true to, but this is much more of a singer / songwriter album with little additional orchestration. It's like a progression from Shadows... a multi-layered complex album with additional vocals and instruments, over The Will... with its simple and raw expression, exploding in white noise on ... Emptiness, and ending with this, a "naked" narrating Frusciante and his first primarily acoustic guitar album.
"The Past Recedes" is such a marvelous track.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5, Sputnik Music 4,5 / 5 stars ]
