Jane's Addiction appear to have pulled off one of the best rock comebacks since Elvis re-emerged wearing that dodgy black leather in 1968.

For a band formed at the back end of the 80s and who split after 1990's remarkable Ritual De Lo Habitual album, Strays sounds as fresh as a daisy.

Thankfully none of their unique blend of psychedelic punk funk has gone astray and if anything, they sound more aggressive than a decade ago.

Opening track True Nature is a brutal aural assault which suggests the band are not in the mood for taking prisoners and so it turns out.

So they turn it up and slap it down with a style, grace and song-writing musicianship which today's nu-metal monkeys could only dream of.

Vocalist (and now, it seems, cleaned up dandy) Perry Farrell still sounds like he's spitting venom while Dave Navarro's strafing guitar is as ugly as it is beautiful.

Best song could well be the low down, dirty funk of Suffer Some but on an album as uniformly brilliant as this, that may be splitting hairs.

Storming.

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