RHCP on new album: 'It feels a lot better than the last one'

Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea has confirmed that the band are working on a new "super danceable" record, which he hopes will be out within a year.

This will be the band's first album since 2011's I'm With You, but Flea insists it's been a completely different experience this time round, having got to know new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer better.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Flea said: "We had a new guitar player [on I'm With You] and it was a real feeling-out process with each other. 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 bassist continued: "We've been writing and rehearsing, rolling up our sleeves, getting in the studio and doing it. We're nearly finished writing. We'll go in the studio sometime in the next couple of months."

Flea estimates that the group have already written over 30 songs for the album, but "we always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot." As for what the album sounds like, he said: "It's cool. It's super danceable, funky shit and some real introspective, pretty stuff. It feels good, man, and it's fun to play it."

There's still no word as to whether Rick Rubin, who's worked with the band on every albm since 1989, will be involved in the recording process.