“End to the Lies” by Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction hadn't put out anything new since 2003's Strays when "End to the Lies" arrived as a digital download in March 2011, the first single from their fourth album, The Great Escape Artist. The talking point was the bass player: Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, filling a spot once held by Eric Avery and Duff McKagan, and sharing the writing credit with Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

Sitek's funk-bent groove drives it, the Master Musicians of Joujouka pile on rhaita and extra percussion for a hypnotic, tribal churn, and Navarro smears fuzz across the verse riff. Rich Costey produced, recorded and mixed it, with Farrell co-producing. The video painted animated versions of Farrell, Navarro and Perkins onto a nude model, and a second clip, directed by Todd Newman, caught the band and Sitek at work on the recording.

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