Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication 2LP vinyl

Following a string of unsatisfactory replacements (including former Jane's Addiction alum Dave Navarro), Californication -the band's seventh album - saw them reunited with both errant guitarist John Frusciante (hauled out of a long and debilitating heroin addiction) and producer Rick Rubin, whose mixture of commerical nous and sonic smarts helped make 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik their breakthrough set. It's a welcome reunion: Frusciante's playing, in particular - tight, yet lyrical - fits these songs like a second skin, lending them a sensual sort of ease that is perfectly in keeping with the reckless hedonism of their lyrics. The songs themselves are much the same mixture of adrenalised swagger and high-tensile funk as ever.

NEW / Released in 1999 / Reissue: 2021

Tracklist:

A1 Around The World

A2 Parallel Universe

A3 Scar Tissue

A4 Otherside

B1 Get On Top

B2 Californication

B3 Easily

C1 Porcelain

C2 Emit Remmus

C3 I Like Dirt

C4 This Velvet Glove

D1 Savior

D2 Purple Stain

D3 Right On Time

D4 Road Trippin'