Album drops Oct 14th
Red Hot Chili Peppers will release Return of the Dream Canteen, its second double album of 2022, on October 14th via Warner Records. The surprise announcement was dropped at Denver’s Empower Field to rapturous response as the North American leg of their critically and commercially acclaimed global stadium tour kicked off on Saturday (July 23rd).
The Denver show was packed with iconic Red Hot Chili Peppers hits as well as new fan favorites “Black Summer” and “These are the Ways” from their current chart-topping album, Unlimited Love. The band sent the sold out stadium audience into raptures as Anthony Kiedis announced to the unexpecting audience that they have another brand new studio album coming this year.
“We went in search of ourselves as the band that we have somehow always been. Just for the fun of it we jammed and learned some old songs. Before long we started the mysterious process of building new songs. A beautiful bit of chemistry meddling that had befriended us hundreds of times along the way. Once we found that slip stream of sound and vision, we just kept mining. With time turned into an elastic waist band of oversized underwear, we had no reason to stop writing and rocking. It felt like a dream. When all was said and done, our moody love for each other and the magic of music had gifted us with more songs than we knew what to do with. Well we figured it out. Two double albums released back to back. The second of which is easily as meaningful as the first or should that be reversed. Return of the Dream Canteen is everything we are and ever dreamed of being. It’s packed. Made with the blood of our hearts, yours truly, the Red Hot Chili Peppers,” the band writes.
The album will be released on CD, 2 LP and cassette, and follows the April release of the band’s 12th studio album, Unlimited Love. Both 2022 albums were produced by Rick Rubin, continuing the three decade partnership of the collective. Their creative collaboration spans legendary albums, including the diamond-selling Blood Sugar Sex Magik [1991], Californication [1999], By The Way [2002] and Stadium Arcadium [2006].
It also marks the second collection of recorded material since guitarist John Frusciante rejoined the group in September 2021. The group previously stated that 48 songs were recorded during the Unlimited Love sessions.
