★★★★★
Forgive Perry Farrell if his post-Jane's Addiction outfit Porno For Pyros fell a tad flat. In hindsight, maybe he worried a bit too much about what Jane may have said, delivering a debut that played a little too close to his seminal band's chest-pumping vest, and not providing enough of the color and flair that made the band such a seminal bridge between alt-rock fashion and hard-rock furor...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
Perry Farrell's first solo album might be titled Song Yet to Be Sung, but for the most part, the song remains the same. The trance-y big beats behind "Did You Forget" and the unsatisfying drum-and-bass powering "Happy Birthday Jubilee" are, like, so 1997. Farrell's new explorations into electronica rock are satisfying as neither electronica nor rock. The title track, with its faux ethnotechno production and slick harmonies, sounds like Enrique Iglesias on Vicodin...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
As celebrated for his hedonistic lifestyle as he is for Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros, Perry Farrell remains a mainstream maverick. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, remember that the Los Angeleno stick insect was responsible for the gestation of Lollapalooza, a blueprint for US 'alternative' rock festivals since...
- nme.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
To be honest, it's a little perplexing as to why Perry Farrell needs a compilation to highlight his career work. As a rock entity and a musical genre seemingly his own, without or mostly with band collaboration, he is a love-him-or-hate-him artist with die hard fans and erstwhile detractors. This would seem to dictate that those with an interest in any of these songs, which do offer up a nice summary of his more popular work, would already own them...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
There are people in this world who perceive existence on more planes than most of us. People like the great Mohammad Ali, who stoically explains being struck down-but-not-out by Parkinson's disease as God's will, a way of showing us that the most perfect human specimen, robbed of all his physical and verbal dexterity, can still live with grace and dignity.
Another such being is Perry Farrell. Nominally a rock star, Perry sees beyond music...
- nme.com
2008-10-22
★★★★★
Even though Perry Farrell didn't disappear in the latter half of the '90s, it sure felt like he had. Lollapalooza dried up not long after he left, his follow-up festival was stillborn, Porno for Pyros never achieved the high profile or respect of Jane's Addiction -- and when Jane's did reunite in 1997, its companion album and tour were a distant memory a year later. So, he seized the opportunity of silence by laying low, developing a new sound for a new project -- namely, a solo career...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
To be honest, it's a little perplexing as to why Perry Farrell needs a compilation to highlight his career work. As a rock entity and a musical genre seemingly his own, without or mostly with band collaboration, he is a love-him-or-hate-him artist with die hard fans and erstwhile detractors. This would seem to dictate that those with an interest in any of these songs, which do offer up a nice summary of his more popular work, would already own them...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-08-03
★★★★★
Perry Farrell, the drug-frenzied genius behind Lollapalooza and the architect of pioneering L.A. alt-rockers Jane's Addiction, possesses a voice that's compelling whatever he's singing. A good thing, too, because what he's singing here needs all the help it can get. Attempting to reinvent himself as an electronica artist, Farrell lays down trance-style grooves, brings in friends and jams like a computer-age hippie...
- www.blender.com
2008-07-30
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