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The Red Hot Chili Peppers
' eighth studio album finds the California foursome exploring the more melodic freeways of harmony and texture, contrasting the gritty, funky side streets of their early days. Luckily, with this more sophisticated sound,
the Peppers
have not sacrificed any of their trademark energy or passions for life, universal love, and (of course) lust. Although they recorded the spiky
Abbey Road EP
in 1988, this album actually sounds a lot closer to
the Beatles
'
Abbey Road
, with a little of
Pet Sounds
and elements of
Phil Spector
's lushest arrangements all distilled through the band's well-traveled
funk
-
pop
stylings. Harmony vocals and string arrangements have replaced some of the aggressive slap bass that the group was initially recognized for, but fans of both the gentle and the fierce
Chili Peppers
styles will embrace the title track and first single,
"By the Way."
In fact, this song on its own could almost be a brief history of everything
the Red Hot Chili Peppers
have recorded: fiery Hollywood
, gentle harmonies, a little bit of singing about girls, a little bit of hanging out in the streets in the summertime, some rapid-fire raps from
Anthony Kiedis
, some aggro basslines from
Flea
-- the song plays like a three-and-a-half-minute audio version of
Behind the Music
. Overall, the album leans more toward the melodic end of their oeuvre, but they have grown into this kinder, gentler mode organically, progressively working toward this groove little by little, album by album. What once were snapshots of a spastic
punk
lifestyle have grown into fully realized short stories of introspection and
Californication
. Though the pace of the album falters at times (particularly in the verses; the choruses are all pretty spectacular), it is refreshing to see that as the four
continue to grow older and more sure of themselves, their composition and performing skills are maturing along with them. ~ Zac Johnson
' eighth studio album finds the California foursome exploring the more melodic freeways of harmony and texture, contrasting the gritty, funky side streets of their early days. Luckily, with this more sophisticated sound,
the Peppers
have not sacrificed any of their trademark energy or passions for life, universal love, and (of course) lust. Although they recorded the spiky
Abbey Road EP
in 1988, this album actually sounds a lot closer to
the Beatles
'
Abbey Road
, with a little of
Pet Sounds
and elements of
Phil Spector
's lushest arrangements all distilled through the band's well-traveled
funk
-
pop
stylings. Harmony vocals and string arrangements have replaced some of the aggressive slap bass that the group was initially recognized for, but fans of both the gentle and the fierce
Chili Peppers
styles will embrace the title track and first single,
"By the Way."
In fact, this song on its own could almost be a brief history of everything
the Red Hot Chili Peppers
have recorded: fiery Hollywood
, gentle harmonies, a little bit of singing about girls, a little bit of hanging out in the streets in the summertime, some rapid-fire raps from
Anthony Kiedis
, some aggro basslines from
Flea
-- the song plays like a three-and-a-half-minute audio version of
Behind the Music
. Overall, the album leans more toward the melodic end of their oeuvre, but they have grown into this kinder, gentler mode organically, progressively working toward this groove little by little, album by album. What once were snapshots of a spastic
punk
lifestyle have grown into fully realized short stories of introspection and
Californication
. Though the pace of the album falters at times (particularly in the verses; the choruses are all pretty spectacular), it is refreshing to see that as the four
continue to grow older and more sure of themselves, their composition and performing skills are maturing along with them. ~ Zac Johnson
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