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  • Summary: The debut full-length solo jazz release from Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea features six original songs and guest appearances by Nick Cave and Thom Yorke.
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
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  1. Mar 26, 2026
    80
    In ‘Honora’, Flea has found a way to redefine his humble musical roots, far from a vanity project, it’s a deeply considered, richly textured body of work.
  2. Mar 27, 2026
    80
    Honora is never dilettantish, though: it’s sincere, exploratory and soulful.
  3. 80
    A quietly accomplished jazz project.
  4. Mar 27, 2026
    73
    It’s a mature and compositionally sophisticated collection of songs whose only real unifying thread is that Flea is very excited to be playing all of them.
  5. Classic Rock Magazine
    Apr 3, 2026
    70
    As first albums go, Honora is a risky play, but it's one that just about manages to pay off. [May 2026, p.75]
  6. Mar 27, 2026
    70
    Honora feels a bit like a few different projects in one, its moments of revelatory beauty refracted through a slightly convoluted structure.
  7. The Wire
    Mar 23, 2026
    50
    It feels like a self-conscious attempt to approximate jazz without ever quite committing to it, no doubt partly due to the fact that Flea's horn chops are somewhat rudimentary, favouring languid lines that could generously be seen as resembling Chet Baker at his most unbothered. .... It's hard not to feel the project lacks any of the liberatory qualities one would hope for from a genuine jazz statement. [Apr 26, p.50]

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