John Frusciante
Enclosure
Record Collection (2014)
Though he’s primarily known for being the former, on-again, off-again guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante has long pursued a solo career that’s been full of peaks and valleys. After releasing a pair of somewhat fascinating, but difficult-to-listen-to albums in the 1990s, Frusciante hit his stride as a solo artist in the early 2000s, at one point releasing seven solo or collaborative albums during a one year period from 2004-5. Since that point, Frusciante’s uncompromising solo career has largely been hit or miss, reaching a high point with 2009’s The Empyreanbut more recently heading into bizarre territory even by his standards with releases like 2012’s Letur-Lefr EP (in which he experimented with hip-hop) and the same year’s PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (a scatter-brained, self-described “progressive synth pop” album that was a bit of a mess). 2014’s Enclosure (released on the Record Collection label) positions Frusciante on slightly more firm territory since the material here sounds somewhat similar to the types of music he was making during his most prolific period in the mid 2000’s. Unfortunately, this album seems to go nowhere, made up of experimental electronic music that requires a ton of effort to get into and offers … Read more
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Lost In The Dream
Secretly Canadian (2014)
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Weird Headspace
Independent (2014)
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