The Getaway (Red Hot Chili Peppers album)

The Getaway
Studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released June 17, 2016
Recorded 2014–2016
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Danger Mouse[1]
Red Hot Chili Peppers chronology
Cardiff, Wales: 6/23/04
(2015)		 The Getaway
(2016)
Singles from The Getaway
  1. "Dark Necessities"
    Released: May 5, 2016
Expanded image of the album cover photo by artist Kevin Peterson

The Getaway is the upcoming eleventh studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, slated to be released through Warner Bros. on June 17, 2016.[2] This will be the band's first studio album since 2011's I'm with You and was produced by Danger Mouse, who replaces Rick Rubin after twenty-five years and six albums as the band's producer, making it the first non-Rubin produced album since 1989's Mother's Milk. The album was proceeded by the first single "Dark Necessities" on May 5, 2016.[3]

Background

Production on the album began in 2014 however was delayed for eight months due to bassist Flea suffering a broken arm from snowboarding. Anthony Kiedis said "We had an unusually difficult experience making this record where we wrote 20-30 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, which was a bit of a setback... . So we re-thought everything and then we didn’t have a producer and we were just sort of lost in space with all these songs. And lo and behold it was meant to be, as these things can be, and when all the dust settled Brian Burton, aka 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. Initially there was an affinity and a marriage to all these other songs, but the only way that we saw this working was to have trust in him and get rid of our old ideas and our old way of doing things and say ‘If this is going to work, we just have to throw ourselves off the cliff and see what happens."[4]

Packaging

The album cover is a painting by Kevin Peterson. According to Peterson "The Red Hot Chili Peppers wanted to use my painting Coalition II for the cover of their upcoming album. I told em it was cool but not to hound me for autographs. Special thanks to Chloe and @Chelsea Marie Bradley for some fine modeling."[5] Anthony Kiedis in an interview on the Kevin and Bean show on May 5, 2016 discussed the album cover saying "Normally we get a little more high brow artsy, and this just felt extremely warm and human, even though it’s animals, it felt human. And it’s also us. Chad is the bear, Josh is the girl and Flea is the raccoon and me is the funny little raven out front."

Tour

The tour to support the album will begin in September 2016 and continue into 2017. Only a handful of dates have been announced and the tour is expected to begin in Europe.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "The Getaway"    
2. "Dark Necessities"   5:02
3. "We Turn Red"    
4. "The Longest Wave"    
5. "Goodbye Angels"    
6. "Sick Love"    
7. "Go Robot"    
8. "Feasting on the Flowers"    
9. "Detroit"    
10. "This Ticonderoga"    
11. "Encore"    
12. "The Hunter"    
13. "Dreams of a Samurai"    

The band will release a version of the album on 180g vinyl which will be foil stamped and limited to 5,000 copies worldwide. The packages, which are webstore exclusives, also includes "Dark Necessities" on cassette single and a 24" x 24" lithograph with extended artwork. Those who pre-order the album will receive a free download of "Dark Necessities".[6]

Personnel

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Recording personnel
Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Parker Hall (2016-02-02). "The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new Danger Mouse-produced record is ‘In the home stretch’". Yahoo.com. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  2. ↑ "Red Hot Chili Peppers FanSite | English Red Hot Chili Peppers FanSite". RHCP.us. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  3. ↑ "The Getaway - RHCP News". Redhotchilipeppers.com. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  4. ↑ http://thechilisource.com/2016/05/anthony-kiedis-interview-on-the-kevin-and-bean-show/
  5. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/kpetersonart
  6. ↑ "Red Hot Chili Peppers". Redhotchilipeppers.warnerbrosrecords.com. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  7. ↑ http://kevinpetersonstudios.com/gallery
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