By Max Stewart
It has been nearly five years since their last official album, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers provided a highly-anticipated taste of their upcoming release The Getaway with the song “Dark Necessities” today.
Overall, “Dark Necessities” is a slow groove that bears resemblance to something off of 2006’s Stadium Arcadium, with an infectious chorus that will surely be sung by thousands in festivals / arenas across the world during their upcoming tour. Flea dominates the verses with a slap-happy bass riff that is textbook RHCP, intertwined with some piano melodies (also performed by Flea). Although the song deviates a bit from the straightforward funk-rock signature sound of the band, “Dark Necessities” represents the band embracing that they can incorporate dark themes into a down-tempo, piano-heavy sound and make it feel sincere and familiar. In fact, singer Anthony Kiedis proclaims: “You don’t know my mind, you don’t know my kind, dark necessities are part of my design”.
A contributing factor to the band’s evolving sound could be the fact that they are shaking it up in terms of production of the new album. “You and I both know, everything must go away,” Kiedis declares as the band chose to employ Danger Mouse as the producer of The Getaway, after a long tenure with Rick Rubin that dates back to Mother’s Milk (1989). The change in production could breathe new life into the sound of the band and ultimately re-energize the unit as they hit the road and inevitably circle the globe a few times.
Be sure to mark your calendar for June 17th, when the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 13-track album The Getaway will be released.
Track Listing
- “The Getaway”
- “Dark Necessities”
- “We Turn Red”
- “The Longest Wave”
- “Goodbye Angels”
- “Sick Love”
- “Go Robot”
- “Feasting on the Flowers”
- “Detroit”
- “This Ticonderoga”
- “Encore”
- “The Hunter”
- “Dreams of a Samurai”
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