The Great Escape Artist by Jane's Addiction

The Great Escape Artist, the fourth and final studio album from Jane's Addiction, landed on Capitol on October 18, 2011, eight years after Strays. Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins were back in the room, but bassist Eric Avery had walked out in 2010, so Chris Chaney returned and TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek added bass of his own, with Rich Costey producing.

Farrell described it as the band's old post-punk gloom crossed with the sound of groups like Muse and Radiohead, and that's about right: Navarro's guitars swoop and churn through a thick, modern fog of effects, and "Underground" and "Twisted Tales" hit with dark, dense grooves while Perkins keeps everything thundering. "End to the Lies", handed out free as a download that spring, is the tightest punch of the lot. Farrell said the title was about escaping his past, and the record sounds like a band trying hard not to repeat it.

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