Jane’s Addiction have announced they will release their long awaited fourth studio album The Great Escape Artist on October 17th.
Spun through a kaleidoscope of tightly wound riffs, hypnotic harmonies, booming beats, and an unmistakable howl, the record announces the beginning of the next chapter for the alternative rock torchbearers.
The writing process began in 2010 and by early 2011 the band entered a Los Angeles studio with producer Rich Costey. Their intent was to travel a different road, and consequentially they paved an entirely new path for alternative music at large.
Costey introduced Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins to TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek with the hopes of getting him involved somehow. After a couple of lab sessions, the chemistry was obvious. Sitek stepped into the role of a songwriter and a bass player for the album with Navarro, and touring bassist Chris Chaney, also sharing four-string duties.
Jane's Addiction opened up the gateway to The Great Escape Artist in a unique fashion on the first single, ‘End To The Lies’, a song that slides from an elegantly entrancing exorcism of distortion into Farrell's transcendent croon about "a composite of assholes" he knows. In order to conjure the otherworldly sounds of ‘End to the Lies,’ the band collaborated with The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Sufi trance musicians from northern Morocco.
Even with the experimentation, it's still classic Jane's Addiction. Talking about the song, Navarro reveals, "The band hails from Los Angeles. We come from the street. I think the combination of angst, the street element, the artistic element, and the love of sexuality and sensuality fuse together. It's pretty much what this band has been about since day one."
This is another level for Jane's Addiction, and they're opening doors for curious artists to follow just like they did nearly thirty years ago. Farrell concludes, "I love being able to escape my past even though my past was great. I just love the future even more."
Jane's Addiction have a number of US dates lined-up - if you're in the US and want to catch the band live, click the link below for dates and details.
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