NASHVILLE |DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2011
JANE’S ADDICTION
TO PERFORM TONIGHT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 ON
THE “LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN”
NEW ALBUM ‘THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST’ PRODUCES TOP TEN MODERN ROCK HIT “IRRESISTIBLE FORCE”
AND GARNERS CRITICAL ACCOLADES
Coming off two roof-raising sold-out shows last week at Irving Plaza in New York City (10/17, 10/18) as part of a special small venue run that also brought the band to Chicago and Los Angeles, JANE’S ADDICTION—frontman Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins, along with Chris Chaney on bass—will perform tonight, Monday, October 24, on CBS-TV’s “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST—the pioneering alt-rock band’s fourth studio album that was released October 18–features the transfixing “Irresistible Force,” a Top Ten hit on the alternative rock chart. The album, the band’s first in eight years, was produced by Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol), with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek on the creative team. Sitek, best known for his production work for TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Foals, is writing, programming, and playing bass on the album.
A free download of the album’s opening track “Underground” is available now via the Lollapalooza website:
http://www.lollapalooza.com/news-events/lolla-news/2011/10/17/undergound/ Meanwhile, in 2012, JANE’S ADDICTION will embark on a world tour.
Here’s some of the early praise for THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST:
“Jane’s Addiction continues to create music with the audacity and intensity of cyber-geek garage rockers….This fourth album finds core members Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins conjuring the feral drive and mystical haze of those early works with a fresh kick to the band’s electro-rock meld…Bombastic, arty, sensual and richly textured, the 10 tracks test the boundaries of dance-rock while steering clear of indulgent extremes. Navarro’s guitar work is full, fanciful and deft, not showy. Perkins drums with precision and sting. And Farrell, once a keening specter, sticks to his solid vocal middle range. The bottom line: The Great Escape Artist is great artistic escapism.”
— Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY, October 17, 2011
“The album is classic Jane’s–all yowling vocals and sensual waves of music cascading and peaking.”
–Gavin Edwards, ROLLING STONE, October 27, 2011
“..the taut grooves of ‘Underground’; the beefy choruses of ‘Curiosity Kills,’ ‘I’ll Hit You Back’ and ‘Splash a Little Water on It;’ and the thrashy propulsion of ‘Words Right Out of My Mouth.’ Those tracks sit nicely alongside the prettiness of ‘Broken People’ and the proggy countenance of ‘Irresistible Force’…[the band]…not only learned new tricks, but they used them well.”
–Gary Graff, BILLBOARD, October 22, 2011
“.. The band tempers its swagger, and at points Mr. Farrell’s voice recedes behind a wash of synths and sustained guitars. The deep, textured tracks rarely fail to engage. There’s an appealing, cohesive sound to the disc. Dave Navarro issues several searing guitar solos, but some of his best work is in his flat-picking, giving the sound its high, glittery tones. In the opening track, ‘Underground,’ he excels with terse fills long before he solos at the song’s fade. As always, Stephen Perkins proves to be one of rock’s great drummers, and his interplay with Mr. Navarro, his high-school marching-band buddy, is one of the disc’s savory treats.”
–Jim Fusilli, WALL STREET JOURNAL, October 11, 2011
“…represents both a return to form and an unsullied beginning…for a group to sound this vital after a two-decade-plus run — well, that is shocking.”
— Matt Diehl, LOS ANGELES TIMES, October 18, 2011
“The 10 tracks on Great Escape recall the Jane’s Addiction you remember — the Los Angeles quartet that blended ambling bass lines with blistering rock — plus 20 more years of musical maturity…’Broken People,’ a sad song with shimmering guitars reminiscent of ‘Classic Girl’ from 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual, reflects the perspective of age.”
— Sandy Cohen, ASSOCIATED PRESS, October 20, 2011
“Jane’s Addiction…have made a big blazing fire with their fourth studio album and first in eight years…Full-frontal guitar rock, electronic textures and shaman eroticism might make strange bedfellows in most people’s worlds, but for Jane’s Addiction, they weave an intriguing and captivating web. The 10 tracks on The Great Escape Artist – that’s right, 10, the band doesn’t wear out the welcome – slam and swirl like a Big Wednesday surf. The group’s sound is hard, expansive, reverential yet forward-thinking. This is a band with quite a past and a limitless future. That they’ve managed to put the two perspectives together on one record is reason to rejoice.”
–Joe Bosso, MUSICRADAR.COM, October 12, 2011
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