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  • Summary: The third solo release from former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. While not as unhinged as his 1997 solo debut, this is highly eccentric. [2/16/2001, p.98]
  2. The record is both labour of love and exorcism - Frusciante plays every instrument himself and every song is, without exception, pointedly self-analytical and emotionally probing. This, combined with Frusciante's ropey but breath-catchingly fraught voice, can make for uncomfortable listening. Nevertheless, there remains an underlying optimism and fondness for unapologetically pretty melodies that imparts a redeeming and lasting warmth.
  3. To Record lacks the flashes of experimental brilliance found on Frusciante's earlier albums, but it quietly reaffirms the promise of a songwriter who can be simultaneously impenetrable, strange and oddly magnificent.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. DouglasL
    10
    A wonderful album, dedication to life itself. John Frusciante knows what he´s talking about and does it with stile.
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  2. PSM
    10
    This album is amazing, just like his other albums that are also amazin'!
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  3. Mexicola2
    10
    This album is fantastic!! I love it!! Anuway, John Frusciante couldn't make a bad album if he tried...He is GOD!
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