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Jun 21, 2016There’s a lot of fun to be had in the snap ’n’ flex with which Kiedis flips out this nonsense. He and Flea (now 53) clearly know how daft they are yet you can also hear how happy they sound to still be pogoing along.
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Jun 27, 2016Though it’s hardly a full-blown reinvention, The Getaway shows that even after more than 30 years in the business Red Hot Chili Peppers still have something new to offer.
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Jun 16, 2016Ultimately, The Getaway is a nuanced album, rife with journeyman craft and poetry, that proves the Red Hot Chili Peppers still have plenty of their own creative fire.
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Jun 15, 2016It doesn’t sound exactly like classic-vintage Chili Peppers, but it might just sound like how you remember them.
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Jun 15, 2016As ever, California gets plenty of mentions, though there’s less filler than usual, the album reaching a yearning epiphany in the string-draped song for a son, “The Hunter”.
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Jun 13, 2016The brilliance of The Getaway is in its subtleties, which define their most intimate and expressive album to date, and suggest that, after 32 years, the Chilis can still keep us guessing.
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Jun 10, 2016Thanks to the band’s own accumulated expertise and the masterly stitching qualities of Danger Mouse, it’s a tightly woven affair, never messy or maudlin or self-indulgent; a dreamcoat of many colours, a marble rye of genres.
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Jun 17, 2016Decades into their career, the band can’t help but sound like themselves, even when trying not to--and it’s the ultimate sign of their staying power.
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Jul 21, 2016The Getaway is generally a surprising success--the sound of a band having the intelligence to know when the time has come to move on and having the skill to actually achieve it.
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Jun 16, 2016To their credit, the Peppers' 11th LP is a bold attempt to jibe their past party-dog selves with their present-day artistic ambitions--not always a perfect fit but a compelling one.
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Q MagazineJun 29, 2016An odd, deliberately unpunchy comeback. [Aug 2016, p.114]
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Kerrang!Jun 24, 2016Some of the tracks judder with a rhythm to which you cam only dance when in the throes of an electric shock. But as wearisome as these sections tend to be, they are almost wholly redeemed by moments of musical brilliance, moments which border on the sublime. [25 Jun 2016, p.50]
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Jun 21, 2016Like every Chili Peppers album, the 13-track The Getaway suffers from bloat.
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Jun 21, 2016The Getaway is about as good as you can hope for from a band who will, without reservation, hang out in a car with late-night-TV cornball James Corden with lavalier mics forcibly affixed to their naked torsos (a bit of movie magic I’d be okay never having properly explained, frankly).
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Jun 20, 2016Co-opted as they may be, the best tracks tend to be the ones that aren’t attempting to mine old hooks for new hits.
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Jun 17, 2016[The production by Danger Mouse] doesn’t make much difference--they still sound exactly the same.
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Jun 16, 2016Clunky metaphors and couplets all too often come along and puncture the pensiveness.
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Jun 16, 2016These are well-penned tunes. They just don’t do anything special with them.
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Jun 17, 2016The tame, disco-fried band they’ve become is the only group you’ll hear on the second half of the album, and the instrumental moments that provide redemption wear thin as Kiedis dampens their purpose.
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Jun 17, 2016Oddly enough, The Getaway starts to flounder whenever RHCP revert back to their old habits.
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Jun 20, 2016Were it not for these issues [the album’s lyrical stasis scans as disappointing] and the B-Side's proliferation of yawn-inducing, stoned slow jams, The Getaway could have potentially bested By The Way as the Peppers’ best work post-Californication.
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Jun 27, 2016The whole album has the unmistakable aura of pointlessness. There’s no passion, no tension, no thrills, nothing memorable to draw the listener into the sonic world the Chili Peppers and Danger Mouse have tried to create.
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UncutJun 21, 2016The melancholy underscoring even the android-sex jam feels both personal and more than a little musty. [Aug 2016, p.80]
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Jul 1, 2016They’re an easy punchline, in fairness--perennial whipping boys, probably deserving of a break at some point--but when they continue to churn out nonsensical self-parody, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ continued stratospheric success is nothing short of baffling.
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Jun 20, 2016Fans will probably find The Getaway an improvement on 2011’s I’m With You, citing tunes such as Detroit. Sceptics will continue to boggle at their enduring charmlessness, a problem not even Danger Mouse can fix.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 238 out of 294
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Mixed: 34 out of 294
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Negative: 22 out of 294
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