John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness LP

Although John Frusciante is best known as a guitarist with the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, he also has an active solo career, having released 11 albums under his own name. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and Electronica.

Inside of Emptiness is Frusciante's sixth studio album, originally released in 2004 on Record Collection, and is the fourth in a series of six releases issued from June 2004 to February 2005. The album includes contributions from future RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and the Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López.

Considerably more guitar-oriented than Will to Death and more straightforward than Ataxia's Automatic Writing, Inside of Emptiness rocks hard up until the last track (a gentle rocker), without the polish of Shadows Collide With People. As with the other albums in this series, Frusciante is wearing his influences on his sleeve but following his own vision, and it's quite interesting to track an artist's virtually unfiltered output over the course of a year or so... Frusciante deserves credit for maintaining a high level of quality with such a prodigious output.