Unlimited Love by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Unlimited Love, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' twelfth studio album, landed on Warner Records on April 1, 2022, and the story was the homecoming: John Frusciante back on guitar for the first time since Stadium Arcadium in 2006, and Rick Rubin producing them for the first time since I'm with You in 2011. Six years had passed since The Getaway, the longest stretch between albums in the band's history.

With Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Chad Smith locked back in with Frusciante, the record sounds loose and warm, Flea's bass bubbling under guitar lines that take their sweet time. "Black Summer" went out first and gave the band a fourteenth chart-topper on Billboard's Alternative Songs list, with "These Are the Ways" after it. The album opened at number one in 16 countries, America included, and the same sessions gave up a second album, Return of the Dream Canteen, that October.

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