Red Hot Chili Peppers dropped their 12th studio LP, Unlimited Love, today, and the album sees the band returning to the breezy Californian punk-funk of their early years. That sound could largely be credited to the addition of longtime guitarist John Frusciante, who re-joined the band in 2019 after parting ways with the group in 2009, and producer Rick Rubin, who last worked with the band on 2011’s I’m With You.
Unlimited Love marks the first RHCP full-length that features Frusciante since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. Frusciante said his decision to return to the group in 2019 was due to a feeling that he and his bandmates—singer Anthony Kedis, bassist Flea, and drummer Chad Smith—had “unfinished business on a soul level.” “There are aspects of our love and respect for each other that can only be communicated by playing together,” he told Los Angeles Times.
Leading up to the release of Unlimited Love, RHCP shared three singles off the 17-track project: “Black Summer,” “Not The One,” and “Poster Child.” When the album finally arrived, the rockers unveiled the fourth single, “These Are The Ways,” by dropping a Malia James-directed music video for the song.
