You might think being a Red Hot Chili Pepper is easy – but twelfth album Unlimited Love suggests otherwise. This is the work of a band that has recently revived its classic line-up – with guitarist John Frusciante returning – and resumed its relationship with Rick Rubin, the studio legend who produced their best albums, not least 1991’s iconic Blood Sugar Sex Magik. But it’s one thing to have all these fireworks stacked inside your locker, but how do you light them now that you’re older and of a different mindset? Unlimited Love is indisputably an enjoyable and worthy chapter in the Chili’s extraordinary story – but it’s also an album of uncertain direction. The band, perhaps, are not blind to this. Not The One is an affecting ballad about growing older and growing apar...
