Return of the Dream Canteen is the thirteenth studio album by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on October 14, 2022, through Warner Records as a double LP and single CD.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote and recorded Return of the Dream Canteen during the same sessions as their previous studio album, Unlimited Love (2022).

"[7] The band sequenced both Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen to become distinct listening experiences from one another: "We thought, 'These [songs] go together here and these go together there and, look, we’ve got two things, both great.

'"[7] Alongside performing guitar and backing vocals across the album's seventeen tracks, band member John Frusciante recorded multiple keyboard and synthesiser overdubs during the sessions.

"[6] Frusciante embraced several effects and studio techniques to alter and augment his bandmates' performances: "A little bit can go a long way towards taking a live band out of the real world and into an alternate reality.

Also, a lot of the lead vocal treatments, which I did with delays and reverbs and sometimes synths, are things I do in my electronic music to samples.

The pair were discovered by the band's visual creative director and Frusciante's wife, Marcia Pinna, while looking for artists to create imagery for her own music, under the name Aura T-09: "I loved their drawings.

"[9] Upon Return of the Dream Canteen's release, Nabil and Calemard created animated music videos for each track on the album.

[17] Rolling Stone gave particular praise to Frusciante's performance on the album, listing his parts on "Eddie" and "Handful" as highlights.

[28] Consequence praised much of the material, but also noted that "moments that could have otherwise made a significant impact feel diluted", due to the band's rapid release schedule in 2022.

[29] Gerrod Harris of The Spill Magazine praises the release and states, "Overall, Return Of The Dream Canteen feels like a less mainstream Unlimited Love.