Out of Their Tree
After a conflict nearly tore them apart, Red Hot Chili Peppers return with an insanely ambitious double album. Here’s how they managed to turn over a new leaf.
By Alan Light; Spin Staff 04.27.06 3:00 AM
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Love Is All, 'Nine Times That Same Song' (What's Your Rupture)
31 minutes of pissy Swede-punk bliss.
By Douglas Wolk 04.06.06 3:00 AM
Love Is All singer Josephine Olausson wants to get your attention, even if that means getting in your face. On the Swedish quintet's debut album, she's right up front, bouncing and yelling; between her squeal-and-yip delivery and earnest Swedish accent, she ends up in the sexy/nutty zone, somewhere between Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and Bow Wow Wow's Annabella Lwin.
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Morrissey, 'Ringleader of the Tormentors' (Attack/Sanctuary)
Moz goes out for Italian.
By Ross Raihala 04.04.06 3:00 AM
Five minutes into his eighth solo album, Morrissey drops a lyrical bomb: "I am so very tired of doing the right thing / Dear God, please help me / There are explosive kegs between my legs." Moments later this grown man of 46 quivers, "I’m spreading your legs, with mine in between." While lust has been a key theme of his work -- stretching back to the first Smiths single, &
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The Flaming Lips, 'At War With the Mystics' (Warner Bros.)
Wayne Coyne -- bad-trip survivor, self-help guru.
By Will Hermes 03.28.06 4:00 AM
At 45, Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has seen as much ugliness as anybody of his generation. Yet alt rock’s Captain Kangaroo keeps it cheerily surreal, a feat more impressive for how his musical positivity seems -- like some sci-fi monster -- to feed off of horror.
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