The Will to Death

Infobox Album |
Name = The Will to Death
Type = Album
Artist = John Frusciante


Released = June 22 2004
Recorded = December 2003 and January 2004
Genre = Experimental rock, indie rock
Length = 42:25
Label = Record Collection
Producer = John Frusciante
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:91a9qj3wojta link]
*Pitchfork Media (7.4/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17892/John_Frusciante_The_Will_to_Death link]
Last album = "Shadows Collide with People"
(2004)
This album = "The Will to Death"
(2004)
Next album = "Automatic Writing"
(2004)

"The Will to Death" is the fifth studio album by John Frusciante, released on June 22, 2004. Frusciante had previously announced that in 2004 he would produce six albums during a six month break from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "The Will to Death" being the first of these. Following the long and costly recording of his previous album, "Shadows Collide With People", Frusciante decided to experiment recording music quickly and in a minimalist fashion, doing a maximum of two takes per track. [Cite web|url=http://www.johnfrusciante.com/willtodeath.php|title=John's Letter About the Album|accessdate=2008-07-22|publisher="John Frusciante"]

Josh Klinghoffer appears as a collaborator, playing drums, bass, and keyboard. "The Will to Death" reached #36 on the Top Independent Albums. [Cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=62412&model.vnuAlbumId=635185|title=John Frusciante Chart Performance|accessdate=2007-09-17|publisher="Billboard"]

Frusciante has notes that the album is intended to be "the opposite of "Shadows Collide With People":

On "The Will to Death", I thought it would be a good idea to make a record with very little backing vocals, because we’d done it so much on "Shadows". I always have to have a new idea for each album. For "The Will to Death", the idea was to have very little backing vocals. There’s a lot of other huge differences. In every way, I wanted the opposite of Shadows. [http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2004-press/1126-austincronicle/2]

Track listing

All songs written by John Frusciante, with the exception "Helical" (which was written by Frusciante and Klinghoffer).

#"A Doubt" – 4:19
#"An Exercise" – 3:47
#"Time Runs Out" – 4:00
#"Loss" – 5:20
#"Unchanging" – 3:54
#"The Mirror" – 3:02
#"A Loop" – 4:32
#"Wishing" – 2:48
#"Far Away" – 2:17
#"The Days Have Turned" – 2:23
#"Helical" – 2:13
#"The Will to Death" – 3:48

Personnel

* John Frusciante – Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Bass Guitar on "Far Away", "Unchanging" and "The Will to Death"
* Josh Klinghoffer – Drums, Bass, Keyboards, Guitar on "Helical" and "The Will to Death"
* Produced by John Frusciante
* Engineered and Mixed by Ryan Hewitt
* Assisted by Rafael Serrano and Jeff Moses
* Mastered by Bernie Grundman, Bernie Grundman Mastering Hollywood, CA
* Equipment by Dave Lee
* Cover Photograph by Lola Montes Schnabel
* Design by Mike Piscitelli and John Frusciante

References

External links

* [http://www.johnfrusciante.com/ www.johnfrusciante.com] - John Frusciante's official site
* [http://www.myspace.com/johnfrusciantemusic www.myspace.com/johnfrusciantemusic/] - Official Myspace page