The Getaway
| Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Getaway
The Getaway is the eleventh studio album by American rockband Red Hot Chili Peppers, released through Warner Bros.on June 17, 2016.This is the band's first studio album since 2011's I'm with You. It was produced by Danger Mouse, who replaced Rick Rubinafter twenty-five years and six albums as the band's producer, making it the first album not produced by him since 1989's Mother's Milk, while its release makes the current lineup of the band only the second in the group's history to record more than one album together."-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
the sound is top-shelf modern-rock splendor: shimmering guitar fractals, flashing string arrangements, artisanal rhythmic flourishes.
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Pitchfork
crisp, crunchy, crass–and immediate.
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Spill Magazine
The title says it all about this one as the band is changing musical direction, getting away from their old sound and trying to break new ground.
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Vulture
The Getaway, sees the Red Hot Chili Peppers foregrounding a grace and maturity the music’s always stashed behind a veneer of irreverence and playful experimentation.
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Spin
They’re unrepentant goofs, who try to write songs about what matters to them, and sometimes they’re great, and sometimes they’re funny, and sometimes they’re both.
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Telegraph
He and Flea (now 53) clearly know how daft they are yet you can also hear how happy they sound to still be pogoing along.
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Loud Wire
Overall, it's a more somber and soulful Chili Peppers that we hear
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The Guardian
a spacier, melancholy feel that mutes the burliness of previous records.
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The Young Folks
The Getaway is one of the rare times where all three instrumentalists have built songs around each other at the same time instead of building off of one’s starting riff.
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Clash
The brilliance of ‘The Getaway’ is in its subtleties, which define their most intimate and expressive album to date, and suggest that, after 32 years, the Chilis can still keep us guessing.
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USA Today
a richer, far more restrained 11th outing, which downplays Anthony Kiedis' rap-sung vocals and Chad Smith's crashing drums, but still manages to retain the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' funky West Coast aesthetic.
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The National
there’s a freshness in The Getaway that has been lacking in their recent releases.
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Golden Plec
The Getaway offers just enough innovation and quality to validate their chosen direction.
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Consequence of Sound
while the band doesn’t commit to reinvention quite fully enough to make The Getaway the knock-down drag-out comeback it wants to be, it’s refreshing to see them try.
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Alternative Nation
Not every experiment works, but the Chili Peppers should be commended for reinventing their sound and creating a worthy addition to their catalog.
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Red Brick
The Getaway is without a doubt, a fresh flavour
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Music OMH
The Getaway shows that even after more than 30 years in the business Red Hot Chili Peppers still have something new to offer.
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U Interview
The Getaway is a groundbreaking feat in the band’s music, marking a turn towards a more nuanced and laid-back sound.
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Irish Examiner
their music has always been smart and even experimental.
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AP News
The Red Hot Chili Peppers take some chances and hold their own on “The Getaway,” but even in rock ‘n’ roll, time gets away.
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Your Guitar Academy
The Getaway” is a simmering, spacey, melodically refreshing delight that transcends its predictable California references to become the most thrilling Chilis opener since “By The Way”.
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Vulture Hound
The Getaway, while still falling victim to the same flaws that have followed them for quite some time, has the Chili Peppers mixing in some new tricks into their old formula.
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Tiny Mixtapes
every song on here has the potential to make you move mindlessly.
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Words For Reveries
All in all a decent album but RHCP can do so much better.
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The Sound Board
more often than not, The Getaway shoots itself in the foot by missing a suitable presentation mark by a massive degree.
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NZ Herald
Accepting of their past, confused about the future, happy to drop lyrical clunkers, still making occasionally enjoyable funk-inspired jam-rap.
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Cleveland
Chili Peppers make "The Getaway" worth a listen for both young and old, offering up enough groove-worthy funk
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Head Stuff
The Getaway feels more than consciously restrained. It feels uncharacteristically shy, unsure of itself.
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The Daily
It’s surprisingly decent at points, but ultimately marred by Anthony Kiedis’ infamously polarizing vocal presence.
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News Day
Reinvented, remarkably restrained and red hot once again
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The Fire Note
this is a band that knows it’s strengths and is willing to deliver them to the delight of both long-time fans and new generations of listeners.
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DIY Magazine
If there’s a band more rearward-facing than this lot, we’ll eat our sweaty cock-socks.
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KTSW
The Getaway is about embracing new ideas through the layered instrumentation and honest creative passion that comes when one finds their flow.
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Louder Sound
feels like a meditation of the passing of time, the accruing of history.
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The Odyssey
Despite being more creative and ambitious the album doesn't do anything groundbreaking.
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The Edge
The Getaway is one of Red Hot Chili Peppers' most advantageous and successful records yet
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Evening Standard
nothing leaps out as the single to take them back to their mega-selling peak, but many will prefer these tamer, less hot Chili Peppers.
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The Knockturnal
Dad rock be damned, even if The Getaway won’t get the party started, you sure will enjoy listening to it on the ride home.
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Collegian
“The Getaway” kept Red Hot Chili Peppers’ classic alternative rock style alive through similar sounds to the band’s previous work.
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Loud Magazine
The Chilis’ most lacklustre album ever
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Daily Review
They have certainly made an effort to push themselves to new places but it still feels like they are in the shadow of their heyday.
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The Heavy Press
The Getaway, is a bit of a milestone in that it is ushering in a new era and dimension to the band’s already highly diverse catalogue.
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TH-Ink
It’s a relief that the Peppers made an album that doesn’t make you cringe.
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Rock Sar Culture
The Getaway, although at times feels slower than most Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, is very instrumental and carries a lot of different layers of music.
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All About Jazz
The Getaway contains all of the group's hallmarks—an outstanding rhythm section that drives the songs at various speeds and fueled by dense interwoven funky riffs.
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Cultured Vultures
The Getaway deals with remembering and acceptance of your fellow man, particularly in relationships.
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News OK
"The Getaway," is a melancholy set, even when the rhythms accelerate.
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Medium
RHCP has proved the people wrong, once again.
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Sounds & Books
They are sound worlds that were previously unthinkable.
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The Upcoming
The Getaway has all of the slapped bass and funk of their previous records, mixed with Anthony Kiedis’ signature vocals and high energy, and cased within some truly superb artwork.
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XS Noize
in spite of similarities with a handful of tracks from their back catalogue, is something of a reinvention.
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Sound Board Magazine
The Getaway gives us thirteen new and unique RHCP tracks that venture away from the funk rock they were known for in the 80’s and early 90’s, without completely abandoning their classic sound
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Immortal Reviews
The Getaway is a funky record, but it lacks something.
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Mind Equals Blown
The Getaway has a couple of decent songs, but the rest of it is just not good enough.
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Fikrallowed
quite a few love songs and sweet melodies, some funk, some psychedelic-stoner rock, elements of metal and electronica sounds, The Getaway is a mash-up of different styles.
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The VLM
The Getaway may well represent their most risky but virtuoso work to date, effortlessly transitioning between a mixture of melancholy and funk, meticulously produced by Danger Mouse
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B-Sides
The album is an escape from the mundane and does not fail to deliver high-quality music.
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5th Avenue Journal
The Getaway, brings all of the very best of RHCP talents, without the edge of many former hits.
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Renowned for Sound
The Getaway packs a slightly different punch in comparison to their regular fare, still featuring the same vibe and style but offering a different take on the niche
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Get Rocked
The Getaway is an album that has a slower pace than both longtime Chili Pepper fans and new comers will expect.
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Rock Sound
this is another album full of undeniable, super chilled, funk-fuelled and slick stuff.
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Entertainment Weekly
Decades into their career, the band can’t help but sound like themselves, even when trying not to—and it’s the ultimate sign of their staying power
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Music Times
Kiedis' untimely bad lyrics quite ruined The Getaway.
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Sound Review
The overall vibe is more like an indie record rather than a stadium-filling commercial rock act.
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Whats it Tech
4.5/10- I like the fact that they are trying to find their new sound and change things up a bit, but the album feels like it is missing something.
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Molecular
This track has movement and is nasty in such a chill way.
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The Busted AMP
The Getaway, Anthony and gang don't sound like they're in a hurry to leave The Golden State.
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Enuffa
The Getaway is consistent in sound and feel.
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Metro Weekly
best described as a rebirth than a reinvention.
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Thomas Bleach
While this album is full of new, melodic RHCP like the mellow reflecting “Encore” they still deliver moments that sound like their glory days.
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