The Getaway (Red Hot Chili Peppers album)

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The Getaway
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Studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released June 17, 2016
Recorded 2015–2016
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Danger Mouse[1]
Red Hot Chili Peppers chronology
Cardiff, Wales: 6/23/04
(2015)Cardiff, Wales: 6/23/042015		 The Getaway
(2016)
Singles from The Getaway
  1. "Dark Necessities"
    Released: May 5, 2016

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. It 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 preceded by the first single "Dark Necessities" on May 5, 2016.[3] "Dark Necessities" became the band's 25th top-ten single on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, a record they hold over U2 who currently have 23 top-ten singles.[4] On May 26, 2016, the band released the title track on their YouTube channel. While not a single, the song was made available to purchase the following day along with as a free download for those who pre-order the new album.[5]

Background

Production on the album began in 2014. However, the project was delayed for eight months due to bassist Flea suffering a broken arm sustained while 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".[6]

Kiedis in a May 9, 2016 interview on BBC Radio 2 said of the album that lyrically many of the songs were influenced by a two-year relationship that fell apart like a nuclear bomb and that his favorite song is "The Getaway".[7] Chad Smith discussed the album in a May 17, 2016 radio interview said the band loved Rick Rubin but they wanted to work with someone different this time, how it was important to change producers and be inspired in a different way. Smith also said "We Turn Red" was one of his favorite songs and that "Go Robot", another song he loves, which is very funky, likely would be a single.[8] In an interview with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready which was recorded in late April 2016 however aired on Sirius XM on May 18, 2016, Flea said that "Go Robot" was going to be the first single and described the song as a funny, funky, up-tempo jam and inspired by the Prince song "Controversy". It appears that the label went with "Dark Necessities" instead as the first single. In that same interview, Chad said that Josh Klinghoffer plays bass on "The Hunter" and that it was the only song on the album where Flea did not play on. Smith described Klinghoffer's playing as sounding like Paul McCartney.[9][10] The band confirmed during an album preview show on May 26, 2016 that the previously reported information of Elton John appearing on the album was true and that he plays piano on "Sick Love". Anna Waronker, best known for being the singer of That Dog, provides vocals on "The Getaway".

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."[11] 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 as the funny little raven out front."[6]

Promotion

The band performed an album preview show on May 26, 2016. Four songs from the album were performed. iHeartRadio will air the show online on June 17, 2016, the day The Getaway is released. A music video for "Dark Necessities" is being filmed with Olivia Wilde as the director. A release date for the video is unknown however Chad Smith posted a photo on May 31, 2016 from the set confirming the video was being made.[12]

Tour

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Main article: The Getaway World Tour

The world tour to support the album will begin in September 2016 in Europe and continue into 2017. "Dark Necessities", "Go Robot", "Sick Love" and "This Ticonderoga" made their live debuts in May 2016 during the band's summer festival tour. "The Getaway" had actually been teased during their performance of "Give It Away" at Super Bowl 50 party in San Francisco, CA back in February 2016 however it went unknown until the band released the song on May 26, 2016. The song would first be performed in it's entirety on May 29, 2016.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "The Getaway"   4:10
2. "Dark Necessities"   5:02
3. "We Turn Red"   3:20
4. "The Longest Wave"   3:32
5. "Goodbye Angels"   4:28
6. "Sick Love"   3:41
7. "Go Robot"   4:24
8. "Feasting on the Flowers"   3:23
9. "Detroit"   3:46
10. "This Ticonderoga"   3:34
11. "Encore"   4:14
12. "The Hunter"   4:00
13. "Dreams of a Samurai"   6:09

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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 the first single, "Dark Necessities" and the title track, "The Getaway".[14]

Personnel

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Recording personnel
Additional personnel
Additional musicians

References

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