Details: Amazon.caJane’s Addiction helped put the word “alternative” on the middle-American map with a scarlet A, but their straight-up rock was always front and center. On Strays, the first Jane’s Addiction studio album in 13 years, there’s no mistaking Perry Farrell’s trademark vocal sound (a nasal goose? a banshee in flight?) and Dave Navarro’s ever-adaptable guitar style. But the band–only bassist Eric Avery is absent from their classic lineup, replaced by Chris Chaney–hasn’t come to party like it’s 1991. Sure, the balance of hedonism and earnestness, environmentalism and decadence, remains, but the quartet’s approach is that of a unit ready to flex a few new muscles. Listeners will notice roof-raisers like “True Nature” and “Hypersonic” first, but some of the quieter tracks (“Price I Pay,” with the classic Farrell rationalization “I always do the wrong thing, but I got a good reason,” “To Match the Sun”) are among the most effective Jane