“After returning in the role of Lazarus to the long-running L.A. school play called RHCP, John Frusciante had a star turn in repurposing *Californication* and *By the Way* as wise, unwanky meditations on the mellow gold of life after hedonism. Parts of *Shadows Collide with People* align nicely with those records, both sonically and thematically, but the album is really an exercise in focusing, for”
