release date: Sep. 24, 2012
format: cd
[album rate: 2 / 5]
Track highlights: 2. "Hear Say" - 4. "Ratiug" - 6. "Mistakes" - 8. "Central" - 10. "After the Ending"
9th full-length solo album by John Frusciante follows The Empyrian (2009), and here he has really changed his style. The predecessor was stylistically unique, much like all his albums have been, but normally still close to its immediate predecessor, but on this you may hear what could be a natural consequence of his many recent collaboration works with Omar Rodríguez-López. This is much more of experimental electronic art rock than just regular alt. rock. Gone is also any traces of singer / songwriter, and what remains is his touch of neo-psychedelic. In some places, I think, there is musique concrete and in that way it shares bonds with works by Frank Zappa.
I have tried but I just don't like it.
