Return of the Dream Canteen Tracklist
Return of the Dream Canteen is the thirteenth studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was announced on July 23, 2022, during a concert at the Mile High Empower Stadium in Denver, CO, after appearing randomly on the band’s website.
It is a double album with 17 songs, the same amount as their previous album only months before, Unlimited Love. Both albums were recorded during the same sessions, and the band’s favorite tracks were split amongst the two.
Return of the Dream Canteen was hinted at even before Unlimited Love’s release, with both vocalist Anthony Kiedis and guitarist John Frusciante suggesting that new music was on its way. Kiedis stated “We’re gonna put out music by the handful – literally…. Don’t be surprised if another wheelbarrow of songs comes your way in the near future”, while Frusciante happily stated “I definitely feel like we saved a lot of some of the best stuff for the potential next album.”
The first single, “Tippa My Tongue”, was released on August 19th, alongside a video. Although no official video accompanied it, “Eddie” followed on September 23rd, a tribute to Eddie Van Halen.
“Return of the Dream Canteen” Q&A
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Translations
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What has the band said about the album?
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. 2 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.
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What have the artists said about the album?
Chad Smith:
We just want to leave ‘em wanting less. It was just the four of us in a room and we just wrote a bunch of music and wrote and wrote with no time constraints and ended up recording all these songs. We always record more than what comes out on a record, but often they get left in the vault or unfinished or whatever. But we finished them all. We just felt like we had too many good songs to not put out another record. It’s not like a B-sides record or anything like that. Everything felt good and right, so, yeah, it’s all good.
[Listeners will find sonic similarities between Return of the Dream Canteen and Unlimited Love] because it was all done at the same time and recorded in the same place. So it has continuity in that way. We kind of thought about it before Unlimited Love came out; we thought, ‘These (songs) go together here and these go together there and, look, we’ve got two things, both great.’
—via Billboard
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Is there official animated artwork?
Yes, Apple Music features animated artwork for this release.
