The Red Hot Chili Peppers have not released a new album since 2011's I'm with You, but longtime bassist Flea said that the band is hard at work on a follow-up, which he called "super danceable."
Flea told Rolling Stone recently that the album is coming along better than their previous release because guitarist John Klinghoffer, who took over for John Frusciante in 2009, has been a part of the band for awhile now.
"We had a new guitar player [Josh Klinghoffer] and it was a real feeling-out process with each other," he said about I'm with You. "We didn't want to play gigs with him until we'd made a new record. This time, it feels a lot better than the last one."
The band currently has 30 songs hashed out, and Flea said RHCP will be heading into the studio soon to see which ones make the final cut.
"We've been writing and rehearsing, rolling up our sleeves, getting in the studio and doing it," he added. "We're nearly finished writing. We'll go in the studio sometime in the next couple of months."
It is not unusual for the group to have so much material to pull from, either. Although I'm with You had 14 tracks, the band released a B-side disc of tunes from those sessions last year as I'm Beside You that has 17 songs.
I'm with You made it all the way to No. 2 on Billboard's 200 albums chart, propelled by the mega-hit "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie."
Flea promised something different for their 11th studio release, which has no set release date.
"It's cool. It's super danceable, funky s--t and some real introspective, pretty stuff," he said. "It feels good, man, and it's fun to play it."
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