Red Hot Chili Peppers teasing new singles

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Crammed full of melancholic riffmaking, anthemic choruses and softly-sung melodies, ‘Unlimited Love’ has a lot in common with other Frusciante-era classics like 1999’s ‘Californication’ and 2002’s ‘By The Way’. Yet some of its tracks – grungy tub-thumper ‘These Are The Ways’, acoustic ballad ‘Tangelo’ – are like nothing we’ve heard from the Chilis. This is the sound of a band perfectly in tune with its history, yet uninterested in repeating it.

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Next, following a bonkers, 18-month-long global tour that took in four continents, 29 countries and $73.5million, another album was mooted. Everyone started to write, but a little into the process, Kiedis and Flea realised something wasn’t clicking.

“It was going slowly and without a real definitive drive to it. It was just sort of meandering,” Kiedis says. “And then both Flea and I had a zeitgeist of a feeling inside of ourselves independently which was: ‘It would be really nice to involve John somehow in this process.’ It had been a long time and he was making himself known in our circles again after having been in his very own circle.”

“It felt like [rejoining] might be in the air,” Frusciante says today, video-chatting from his “music room” at home in LA. He’s fully reclined on a foldable lounge chair, while cables snake their way around him and into the many bits of tech he’s been tinkering with. His cat, a squashy-faced ragamuffin called Francis, regularly sashays into frame. John’s always been the most media-shy of the four – a gentle, quiet man transformed with a six-string in his hands – so it’s reassuring to see him so relaxed. “Flea had put the idea [of rejoining] in my head,” he continues, “and I was sitting there with the guitar thinking that I hadn’t written any rock music in so long. Could I still do that?”

He needn’t have worried. The song he wrote that day was so good it became the band’s first single in five years. ‘Black Summer’

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“Oh no,” says Kiedis, with the air of someone delivering good news. “We’re gonna put out music by the handful – literally. Don’t be surprised if another wheelbarrow of songs comes your way in the near future. We have a lot of shite to turn people onto.”

Frusciante is happier to elaborate, mind. He says there’s a “loose plan” for a second album after ‘Unlimited Love’ – and that the band “recorded almost 50 pieces of music” during the Rubin sessions: “We definitely have enough material that we love.” Even more excitingly, he adds that this other project “has a relaxed energy that’s distinct from the intensity of the record that we’ve made here”.

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