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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Return of the Dream Canteen

WARNER RECORDS

After releasing their epic 73-minute album Unlimited Love in April this, guitarist John Frusciante's wonderful weirdness on , Chad Smith pounding through the appositely titled , or bassist Flea being at his slinkiest in decades. The band even step into hitherto unvisited territories: opens like Ultravox's Vienna, while the twinkling its cue from The Kinks at their most winsome in the verses, then adds a chorus not a million miles from . A fine album by any standards, not least the Chili Peppers’ own.

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