IN REVIEW: Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Getaway"

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Being paired with a producer who's not Rick Rubin for the first time in almost 30 years (here, Danger Mouse takes the helm) must have gotten the Chili Peppers' creative juices flowing, because their 11th record is full of variety. That said, it all smacks of See-What-Sticks Syndrome, as the group labours through fits of syrupy balladry (The Longest Wave) '70s AM-inspired lite-rock (Sick Love), nu-disco (Go Robot), stoner rock (This Ticonderoga) and blues/soul (The Hunter) in addition to all the middle-of-the-road radio jams and kooky funk you've come to expect. At the end of the day, it's produced by Danger Mouse, so it's an easy, breezy, retro-minded record where some of the experiments work, some don't, and most of it comes out sounding like Broken Bells.

June 17, 2016 • Warner Bros.
Highlights The Getaway • Goodbye Angels • Dreams of a Samurai


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