Source: Blabbermouth.net
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS will release their eleventh studio album, “The Getaway”, on June 17 via Warner Bros. Records. The CD’s title track can now be streamed below.
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS frontman Anthony Kiedis said that the band scrapped at least two albums worth of songs and wrote new ones when it began working with producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton on “The Getaway”. Speaking with Los Angeles radio station KROQ, Kiedis explained: “We had an unusually difficult experience making this record where we wrote 20 to 30 songs and it was all ready to go and we thought it was happening, and then Flea went snowboarding and broke his arm real bad.”
Kiedis continued: “So we rethought everything and then we didn’t have a producer and we were just sort of lost in space with all these songs… When all the dust settled, Brian Burton, a.k.a. Danger Mouse, emerged and said, ‘Let’s go make a record.’ We were, like, ‘Great! We have all these songs,’ and he was, like, ‘Leave those there. Let’s go write new songs in the studio.’ So the process began over again.”
Kiedis said that although Burton had listened to all the songs the band had already prepped, “He just wanted to see what would happen when we went into the studio and started something fresh.” The singer admitted that there was “pushback” at the first to the idea, but added, “The only way we saw this working was to have trust in him and get rid of our old ideas and our old way of doing things.”
“The Getaway” track listing:
01. The Getaway
02. Dark Necessities
03. We Turn Red
04. The Longest Wave
05. Goodbye Angels
06. Sick Love
07. Go Robot
08. Feasting On The Flowers
09. Detroit
10. This Ticonderoga
11. Encore
12. The Hunter
13. Dreams Of A Samurai
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS will perform at a variety of music festivals around the world this summer, including headlining Lollapalooza in Chicago on July 30.
