Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Album

In the Californication album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers return to producer Rick Rubin and turn up in rare form, impressing old fans and attracting new ones. From the opening song on the album you're taken on a roller coaster ride of funk rock-pop. The guitars are as loud as ever, but the melodies are beautiful forming instant classics along the way. "Parallel Universe" establishes a funky trend with a high-octane bass and a fuzzy distorted chorus, while the Peppers switch gears with "Scar Tissue", a beautiful, calming and wonderfully melodic rock ballad. Californication is the result of a band communicating with each other on a higher musical plane and we are the ones who reap the benefits.