Kind heaven

"For Perry Farrell fans, the mere fact that he's releasing his first solo album in almost two decades should be enough to generate excitement. But the former Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros frontman, who excels at the kind of psychedelic punk rock pioneered by Iggy Pop and David Bowie ... Kind Heaven is an ambitious, engaging record by an artist who clearly still has plenty of fire in his belly".

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"With catchy melodies obscured by stop-on-a-dime genre shifts, the Jane's Addiction frontman has made an album best taken in small servings ... There's no one "genre" you can shoehorn the Kind Heaven record into, other than loosely something like electro-pop psychedelia, but that's only because it's all over the place. He made the record with a large ensemble he dubbed the Kind Heaven Orchestra, which includes current and former members of Soundgarden and non-original members of Jane Addiction and it prominently features his wife Etty on vocals. Together with a group of guests like Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, the Cars' Elliot Easton and Dhani Harrison, Farrell & Co. embark on a musical journey akin to Willie Wonka's boat ride. Depending on the moment of any given song, it can be scary, sickening or thrilling. That's both its greatest weakness and its biggest strength".

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