Strays

First studio album from Jane's Addiction since their third LP 'Ritual Lo Habitual' was released in 1990. The eleven track album reunites Farrell, Navarro and Perkins with new bassist Chris Chaney. Produced by Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd/Alice Cooper/Lou Reed), 'Strays' finds the band expanding its sound fusing an innovative amalgam of punk, indie, prog rock and folk. Includes the lead single 'Just Because'.

Rolling Stone (08/07/03, p.70)
- 4 out of 5 stars - "...The band sounds familiar, with its old gambits intact: the serenely rippling ballads that give way to battering-ram riffs, the odd-meter funk vamps, the sudden swerves from metal stomp to thoughtful melody, the ocean-size crescendos..."

Entertainment Weekly (7/25/03, pp.69-71)
- "...An ambitious, exuberant effort that moves through hard-rock cave stomps into swaggering funk and loopy folk, STRAYS sounds like the work of a committed band intent on hanging around longer than the current Lollapalooza life span..." - Grade: B+

Mojo (08/03, p.90)
- 4 out of 5 stars - "...[Features] Jane's signatures that have been re-jigged to dazzle; the digital delays which lift Farrell to altitude; the loping bass lines; the quiet guitars...and loud ones that trick the Richter Scale with each caustic kerrang..."

Uncut (9/03, p.112)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Their old magic surges through: you won't be disappointed..."

Alternative Press (9/03, p.112)
- 4 out of 5 - "...Dave Navarro and newly recruited bassist Chris Chaney crank the distortion and tighten the riffs..."

CMJ (7/28/03, p.6)
- "...STRAYS proves that Jane's hasn't lost its signature sound..."