
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist (iTunes Deluxe Version) (2011)
Year Of Release: October 18, 2011 | Quality: iTunes - AAC 256 kbps | Size: 322.74 MB
Genre: Alternative Rock | Label: Capitol Records
Jane s Addiction never enjoyed quite the same success on this side of the pond as some of the other rockers who climbed out the LA scene of the mid-to-late-Eighties, but at their best, they had enough swagger and wit to give their sock-rocking contemporaries a run for their money.
Like the Chilis, they certainly had the chops, but while Anthony Kiedis has spent the past twenty years behaving like a bug-eyed gym bunny with personal space issues, Perry Farrell always managed to make it look effortless. Snake-hipped, stick thin and with more than a hint of the Bowies about him, he s a great American frontman, without even having to try. It s a pity, then, that much of The Great Escape Artist - the band s first outing since 2003 s Strays - is very hard work indeed.
Farrell comes across like a man in the midst of an identity crisis, flitting between juvenile boasts and wrong-headed takes on domestic bliss in the space of a song on the ponderous Splash A Little Water On It . It s probably telling that the only time he really sounds at home is when he s looking back on a time before fame ( I laid my bed out / On my back seat on Twisted Tales ). But that s only half the problem. The Great Escape Artist is one-paced, bloodless, and frequently blighted by Dave Navarro s ersatz Edge-isms. It s only on closing stomper Words Right Out Of My Mouth that they finally cut loose, but it s too little, too late.