Red Hot Chili Peppers

RHCP's recorded their ninth studio album in the same digs where they wrote and recorded 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik to reconnect to the fearless mojo and idiosyncratic sonic architecture that rocketed them to the top of the charts. They not only recaptured the spirit of their naughty salad days but ended up with two discs of songs that have expanded their musical and emotional range, trading their leering obsession with body parts for a more sensitive, spiritual take on the world.

Early in the second hour of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' mammoth new double album, the guy
who once yelped, "I want to party on your pussy!" whisper-sings a gentler, though not
unrelated, proposition: "All I want is for you to be happy/And take this woman and make
you my family." The delicate "Hard to Concentrate" is the most vulnerable Peppers tune
ever -- a full-on marriage proposal from Anthony Kiedis, with Flea's muted bass a... More >