Shadows Collide with People is the fourth studio album by John Frusciante

John Frusciante

John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums...

, released February 24, 2004. The album was written during the recording of By the Way

By the Way

By the Way is the eighth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released on July 9, 2002 on Warner Bros. Records. It sold over 286,000 copies in the first week, and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. The singles from the album included "By the Way", "The...

, and is widely regarded as his most accessible work, featuring a mix of guitar-driven alternative rock

Alternative rock

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, folk

Folk music

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 ballad

Ballad

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s, and electronica

Electronica

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. Frusciante has stated that this was his most expensive album to date, costing around $150,000 to produce. Frusciante noted, "I was sick and tired of people dismissing my records as being fucked-up and unprofessional."

Flea

Flea (musician)

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 plays a double bass

Double bass

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 on "The Slaughter", the closing track of the album. All tracks were written by John Frusciante and the majority of the vocal work is performed by him.

Frusciante also made acoustic and demo versions of these tracks available to fans through his official site, now only a blog, as an alternative to the highly produced sound of the record. A promo version of the album was also made, with the tracks "Omission", "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely", and "Failure 33 Object".

The album reached number 191 on the Billboard 200 and #11 on Heatseekers.

On the vinyl release of the album the words "One step away" were inscribed on side A, "There's riddles in the shadows" on side B, "A hint of sadness" on side C, and '"What they least suspect is coming next" on side D. All of these were hints to lyrics on John's next solo album The Will to Death

The Will to Death

The Will to Death is the fifth studio album by John Frusciante, released on June 22, 2004 on Record Collection. The album reached #36 on the Top Independent Albums chart....

.

Track listing

All songs written by Frusciante except where noted.

1. "Carvel" – 6:15
2. "Omission" (Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
   Josh Klinghoffer
   Joshua Adam "Josh" Klinghoffer is an American multi-instrumentalist, who is best known as the current guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Klinghoffer replaced his friend and frequent collaborator John Frusciante, who left the band in 2009.Klinghoffer also fronts Dot Hacker, and was...
   
   ) – 4:33
3. "Regret" – 2:58
4. "Ricky" – 3:59
5. "Second Walk" – 1:42
6. "Every Person" – 2:38
7. "–00Ghost27" (Frusciante, Klinghoffer) – 3:50
8. "Wednesday's Song" – 3:31
9. "This Cold" – 2:00
10. "Failure33 Object" – 2:56
11. "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely" – 3:16
12. "Time Goes Back" – 3:23
13. "In Relief" – 3:36
14. "Water" – 4:06
15. "Of Before" (Japanese release only bonus track) – 3:17
16. "Cut-Out" – 3:34
17. "Chances" – 1:49
18. "23 Go in to End" – 6:42
19. "The Slaughter" – 3:53

Personnel

• John Frusciante
  John Frusciante
  John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums...
  
   – synthesizer, bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals, producer, art direction
• Josh Klinghoffer
  Josh Klinghoffer
  Joshua Adam "Josh" Klinghoffer is an American multi-instrumentalist, who is best known as the current guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Klinghoffer replaced his friend and frequent collaborator John Frusciante, who left the band in 2009.Klinghoffer also fronts Dot Hacker, and was...
  
   – synthesizer, bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Flea – upright bass (on "The Slaughter")
• Chad Smith
  Chad Smith
  Chad Smith is an American musician, best known as the longtime and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot which includes Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, and Michael Anthony, former Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes' backing band and...
  
   – drums and percussion
• Greg Kurstin
  Greg Kurstin
  Gregory Allen "Greg" Kurstin is an award-winning American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009 Kurstin received a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. That same year he won three Ivor Novello awards for his work with Lily Allen, including Songwriters of the Year for "The Fear"...
  
   – Wurlitzer piano (on "Of Before")
• Omar Rodríguez-López
  Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
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   – slide guitar (on "Chances", "23 Go in to End")
• Bernie Grundman – mastering
• Jim Scott – engineer, mixing
• Ryan Hewitt – engineer
• Rene Ricard
  René Ricard
  René Ricard is an American poet, art critic and painter.Ricard grew up in Acushnet, Massachusetts. As a young teenager he ran away to Boston and assimilated into the literary scene of the city. By age eighteen he’d moved to New York City, where he became a protege of Andy Warhol...
  
   – cover painting

• Dave Lee – equipment technician
• Vincent Gallo
  Vincent Gallo
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   – photography
• Ethan Mates – engineer
• Chris Holmes – assistant
• Chris Ohno – assistant
• Alex Marshall – assistant
• Daniel Carlotta Jones - Assistant
• Serena Deakin- assistant
• Richard Scane Goodheart – design
• Charlie Clouser
  Charlie Clouser
  Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser is an American musician whose activities include playing keyboard, synth, theremin, and drums. He is known for his abilities in music programming, engineering, mixing, and remixing. He was a member of the band Nine Inch Nails 1994–2000. Before he was in Nine...
  
  – orchestral programming (on "Regret" and "Chances")

Charts

Charts (2004)	Peak position
Belgium	80
Finland	28
France	127
Ireland	44
Netherlands	83
Switzerland	51
UK	53