Red Hot Chili Peppers announce second album of 2022 Return of the Dream Canteen

After returning with their first album in six years, Unlimited Love, in April, Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced a second record titled Return of the Dream Canteen.

The forthcoming album is produced by Rick Rubin, and will be their second record since guitarist John Frusciante rejoined the band in 2019.

"We went in search of ourselves as the band that we have somehow always been," Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote on Instagram. "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."

They added, "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."

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