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8.0
33674
8.0 |
Mojo
Packing a familiar compliment of pummeling drums, neo-gothic interludes and decidedly alternative characters. Print edition only
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8.0
33839
8.0 |
NME
Their stock is rallying
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8.0
34065
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
There’s still plenty of life in the old beasts
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7.0
33652
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
If you ever liked Jane's Addiction, there's enough here to remind you just why you did
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7.0
35336
7.0 |
The AU Review
Most fans of Jane’s Addiction would find The Great Escape Artist an interesting work
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6.0
34241
6.0 |
Q
Imagination and maturity abound, energy less so. Print edition only
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6.0
33651
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Although the production goes some way to recapturing the atmosphere of the band’s early work, it can’t mask the fact that these compositions still don’t encompass the same daring inventiveness which this group of musicians once held so dear
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6.0
33675
6.0 |
Uncut
Too much of this lacks the urgent life of previous outings. Print edition only
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6.0
34086
6.0 |
No Ripcord
It’s an album that has essentially everything you hoped for, but for some reason it isn’t quite filling enough
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6.0
33861
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The classic Jane’s rough edges have been smoothed out and coated in electronic confections, but there is a darker, grinding groove beneath that sonic sheen
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6.0
33909
6.0 |
Evening Standard
For all the shoulder-shrugging occasioned by another reunion, it's not the disaster it could have been
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6.0
33691
6.0 |
The Observer
A bombastic take on art-rock underpinned by Dave Navarro's virtuoso guitar work
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6.0
33768
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
A slog through murky waters, with a submerged sound far from the torrid near-metal of 2003's Strays
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5.0
33716
5.0 |
Pitchfork
Jane's Addiction have understandably lost the will and desire to be as outrageous and confrontational as they once were
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5.0
33681
5.0 |
BBC
It rarely feels like it comes from the heart. Perfectly serviceable, but this band missed their chance to make a third great album decades ago
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5.0
33687
5.0 |
Slant Magazine
It'd be forgivable—and sort of expected—if Jane's Addiction had merely failed to top their peak material, but the overwhelming impression given by The Great Escape Artist is that they never actually tried
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5.0
34970
5.0 |
FasterLouder
A valiant yet flawed attempt to advance the legacy of Jane’s Addiction
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4.0
33649
4.0 |
The Independent
They may talk it up as a brave new step forward, but their first album in over eight years can't really be viewed as other than a retrograde move
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4.0
33650
4.0 |
Clash
One-paced, bloodless, and frequently blighted by Dave Navarro’s ersatz Edge-isms
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4.0
33766
4.0 |
musicOMH
Whilst there are moments when they do strike the right balance, too often the album meanders into nondescript epic rock territory and lacks the creative punch of their earlier works
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3.0
34148
3.0 |
PopMatters
A dull, unremarkable affair
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1.0
33787
1.0 |
A.V. Club
Great Escape is a bold, erratic, pathetic attempt to recontextualize Jane’s for the 21st century. Or something
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