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Q MagazineJun 29, 2016An odd, deliberately unpunchy comeback. [Aug 2016, p.114]
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Kerrang!Jun 24, 2016Some of the tracks judder with a rhythm to which you cam only dance when in the throes of an electric shock. But as wearisome as these sections tend to be, they are almost wholly redeemed by moments of musical brilliance, moments which border on the sublime. [25 Jun 2016, p.50]
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Jun 21, 2016Like every Chili Peppers album, the 13-track The Getaway suffers from bloat.
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Jun 21, 2016The Getaway is about as good as you can hope for from a band who will, without reservation, hang out in a car with late-night-TV cornball James Corden with lavalier mics forcibly affixed to their naked torsos (a bit of movie magic I’d be okay never having properly explained, frankly).
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Jun 20, 2016Co-opted as they may be, the best tracks tend to be the ones that aren’t attempting to mine old hooks for new hits.
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Jun 17, 2016[The production by Danger Mouse] doesn’t make much difference--they still sound exactly the same.
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Jun 16, 2016Clunky metaphors and couplets all too often come along and puncture the pensiveness.
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Jun 16, 2016These are well-penned tunes. They just don’t do anything special with them.
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Jun 17, 2016The tame, disco-fried band they’ve become is the only group you’ll hear on the second half of the album, and the instrumental moments that provide redemption wear thin as Kiedis dampens their purpose.
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Jun 17, 2016Oddly enough, The Getaway starts to flounder whenever RHCP revert back to their old habits.
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Jun 20, 2016Were it not for these issues [the album’s lyrical stasis scans as disappointing] and the B-Side's proliferation of yawn-inducing, stoned slow jams, The Getaway could have potentially bested By The Way as the Peppers’ best work post-Californication.
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Jun 27, 2016The whole album has the unmistakable aura of pointlessness. There’s no passion, no tension, no thrills, nothing memorable to draw the listener into the sonic world the Chili Peppers and Danger Mouse have tried to create.
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UncutJun 21, 2016The melancholy underscoring even the android-sex jam feels both personal and more than a little musty. [Aug 2016, p.80]
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Jul 1, 2016They’re an easy punchline, in fairness--perennial whipping boys, probably deserving of a break at some point--but when they continue to churn out nonsensical self-parody, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ continued stratospheric success is nothing short of baffling.
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Jun 20, 2016Fans will probably find The Getaway an improvement on 2011’s I’m With You, citing tunes such as Detroit. Sceptics will continue to boggle at their enduring charmlessness, a problem not even Danger Mouse can fix.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 238 out of 294
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Mixed: 34 out of 294
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Negative: 22 out of 294
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