Red Hot Chili Peppers trail June 17’s much-anticipated The Getaway album with this typically funky taster, ‘Dark Necessities’. Produced by Danger Mouse and mixed by Radiohead’s pal Nigel Godrich, it’s available from the band’s website as a very limited-edition cassette. Completists will also want to bag one of the 5,000 2xLP 180g vinyl versions of the LP, which are accompanied by a very snazzy lithograph.
In addition to ‘Dark Necessities’ and the title-track, it features ‘We Turn Red’, ‘The Longest Wave’, ‘Goodbye Angels’,
’Sick Love’, ‘Go Robot’, ‘Feasting On The Flowers’, ‘Detroit’, ‘This Ticonderoga’, ‘Encore’,
 ‘The Hunter’
and ‘Dreams Of A Samurai’.