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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.
Awards & Rankings
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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