release date: Feb. 24, 2004
formt: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
Track highlights: 1. "Carvel" (4 / 5) - 2. "Omission" (4 / 5) - 3. "Regret" - 4. "Ricky" - 6. "Every Person" - 9. "This Cold" - 11. "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely" - 12. "Time Goes Back" - 14. "Water" - 17. "Chances" - 19. "The Slaughter"
4th studio album by John Frusciante, although, many sites include From the Sounds Inside (2001) as his fourth, but that was a bunch of songs that Frusciante gave away to his fans for free, and only as downloadable material.
Shadow Collide... is made at his most productive time. In 2004 he not only released four studio albums, and his first in 2005 was released in February; he also found time to play with his old band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, AND he formed a collaboration project called Ataxia - so in essence, he recorded six albums in the span of six months!
This is a rather fine album, and it's not a short one as it comes with 19 tracks. It's a stylistic big change from synth to alt. rock, although a few tracks are synth experiments. Without being the same musical style, this is, in my mind, the Frusciante solo album that resembles the music of Red Hot Chili Peppers the most.
[ allmusic.com, The Guardian 4 / 5 stars ]
[ allmusic.com, The Guardian 4 / 5 stars ]
