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Return of the Dream Canteen (2022)

Where the lyrics of Return of the Dream Canteen take you, and where it was really made.

Almost 50 songs were recorded in these sessions, and the band first wanted them on one 40-track album, but the label split them across two records.

Key places

Recorded at Shangri-La (2022)

Recording site Shangri-La — The album was recorded at Shangri-La in Malibu, California, during the same sessions as Unlimited Love. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Return of the Dream Canteen: thirteenth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Released October 14, 2022, through Warner Records as a double LP and single CD
• Produced by Rick Rubin
• Seventeen tracks on the album
• Released only 5 months after Unlimited Love, the shortest gap between two albums by the band to date

Background

• Recorded during the same sessions as Unlimited Love
• The sessions marked the return of guitarist John Frusciante after a ten-year absence
• Recording engineer: Ryan Hewitt
• Almost 50 songs recorded with Rubin
• The band initially intended 40 tracks to be released as one album, spread over seven physical discs
• Warner Records resisted this strategy, and a compromise split thirty-four songs across two separate studio albums
• Drummer Chad Smith said the band had too many good songs not to release them

Recording

• Frusciante recorded multiple keyboard and synthesiser overdubs during the sessions
• Frusciante and Chad Smith discussed electronic breakbeats, which Smith incorporated into his playing
• The drumbeat for "Peace and Love" was inspired by a breakbeat from the Isaac Hayes song "Breakthrough"
• The title represents creative prosperity to vocalist Anthony Kiedis

Cover

• Artwork created by French artists Thami Nabil and Julien Calemard
• The pair had earlier made a music video for "Poster Child" from Unlimited Love
• They were discovered by the band's visual creative director and Frusciante's wife, Marcia Pinna
• Upon release, Nabil and Calemard created animated music videos for each track on the album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in Los Angeles in 1982 by Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak, Flea, and Jack Irons, classmates at Fairfax High School.
• First performed on December 16, 1982 at the Grandia Room club on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of about 30 people.
• Changed the name to Red Hot Chili Peppers in March 1983.
• Released the self-titled debut album in August 1984, which sold 300,000 copies.

Members

• Current: Flea (bass, backing vocals, trumpet), Anthony Kiedis (lead vocals), Chad Smith (drums, percussion), John Frusciante (guitars, backing vocals, keyboards).
• Former members include Hillel Slovak (guitar, died of a heroin overdose in 1988), Jack Irons (drums), Dave Navarro (guitar, 1993–1998), and Josh Klinghoffer (guitar, 2009–2019).

Career

• Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) was the first major commercial success; "Under the Bridge" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Californication (1999) became the band's biggest commercial success, with over 16 million copies sold worldwide.
• Stadium Arcadium (2006) was the first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and won Grammy Awards.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 31, 2022.
• Over 120 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Generally positive reviews from critics
• Metacritic score of 69, indicating generally favorable reviews
• Rolling Stone praised Frusciante's performance on the album, highlighting his parts on "Eddie" and "Handful"
• Consequence praised much of the material but said moments that could have made a bigger impact felt diluted by the band's rapid 2022 release schedule
• Gerrod Harris of The Spill Magazine called it a less mainstream Unlimited Love and a weirder, far more experimental record

Records

• Debuted at number one in six countries
• Number three on the Billboard 200 in the United States
• Number one on the Top Albums Chart, the band's second number-one album of 2022
• First rock band with two number-one albums in the same year in 17 years, since System of a Down in 2005
• "Tippa My Tongue" became the band's fourth number-one single on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart
• On the Alternative Airplay chart, 15th number one and 27th top ten single, one shy of the Foo Fighters record

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Coincidentally, Rubin produced all 4 albums.
• In a 2022 interview, Frusciante said the band had recorded 48 songs, and 12 of them have yet to be released, including one called "Comedy Store".
• The band sequenced Unlimited Love and this album to be distinct listening experiences from one another.
• "Eddie", inspired by Eddie Van Halen, was first performed live at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on October 9, 2022.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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