Californication

| Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Californication

Californication is the seventh studio albumby American rockband Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released on June 8, 1999,[2] on Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Rick Rubin. Californicationmarked the return of John Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, to replace Dave Navarro as the band's guitarist. Frusciante's return was credited with changing the band's sound altogether, producing a notable shift in style from the music recorded with Navarro. The album's subject material incorporated various sexual innuendos commonly associated with the band, but also contained more varied themes than previous outings, -including death, contemplations of suicide, California, drugs, globalization, and travel."-Wikipedia

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  • Pitchfork

    As expected, it's considerably better than the bone- stupid One Hot Minute, but not quite as funky- assed as their acclaimed 1991 effort.  

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  • Rolling Stone

    they’ve settled down and written a whole album’s worth of tunes that tickle the ear, romance the booty, swell the heart, moisten the tear ducts and dilate the third eye  

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  • Loudwire

    Californication helped revive the band's career 

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  • AV Club

    Whether the public at large is still thirsting for a good Red Hot Chili Peppers album remains to be seen, but if they are, Californication can't miss. 

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  • Sputnik Music

    A band re-ignited, and a passion revived  

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  • Puluche

    Californication delivers an epic introduction that symbolizes the new and exceedingly improved ‘Chili Peppers.’  

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  • BBC

    The album yielded four hit singles, but even more interesting was the way the band let more than just fun and frolics into the mix. 

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  • NME

    This, it seems, is how they ward off the demons. For most people it’s called adolescence. For the Chili Peppers, it’s a lifelong vocation.  

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  • Classic Rock History

    Californication is the essential funk rock album, as well as the most matured and commercially successful Red Hot Chili Peppers album.  

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  • All Music

    the more pop-oriented material proves to be a pleasant surprise  

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  • Ultimate Classic Rock

    They used 'Californication' as an opportunity to broaden their horizons, both lyrically and musically. 

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  • Sound Blab

    Ultimately, though, it's their ballads which really demonstrate their strengths, both as songwriters and arrangers--and reveal, albeit briefly, the hearts this crew normally take such pains to conceal 

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