January sees the release of John Frusciante’s 8th solo album released under his name, titled The Empyrean. While the release date was originally slated to be the 20th, Amazon.co.uk lists it as 26th so I guess I’ll be having the album at the very end of this month. However, Indie Paws itself will see January become a John Frusciante month of sorts as I’ll be releasing a package of updates relating to the man and his work as the month progresses, inspired by my massive wait for The Empyrean.

A rather unexpected start for the update spree happened this very morning as I was looking for some new info on the album and found that one of its songs has already been released/leaked! “Unreachable” is a six-minute slow groove and sounds unquestionably Frusciante-ish. Cryptic lyrics sung by the man’s handsome, otherwordly voice, guitar wanking that’s actually pleasing to listen, carefully crafted melodies, slight psychedelic tinge during the solo part, and the warm and slightly fuzzy home studio production that gives the song a wonderful homely warmth. In general the song seems to continue the path his 2004 spree of albums followed, offering yet another aspect to his style of rocking.

And it’s an awesome six minutes I tells ya.

First sample from the concept album The Empyrean has been given and Flint approves.

MP3: Unreachable
Preorder The Empyrean from Amazon

Tags: John Frusciante

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