Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures Of Raindance Maggie

And the prize for the most random track title of 2011 goes to the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Seriously though, what's all this Raindance business about?

Indecipherable collections of words aside, the jury's out on whether the Chili's big comeback track is good or not. Because it comes down to precisely that - it doesn't sound 'big' enough.

Remember when Dani California came out - a tune of such immensity that it still receives mind-boggling amounts of airplay on radio stations everywhere to this day. Dani California was a masterful example of how to create a rock anthem, but new single Adventures... just sounds like the Chili's running on autopilot - a Peppers-by-the-numbers if you will.

Funky base - check. Cowbell - check. Jagged, scratchy guitar hooks - check. All the ingredients are there, but when the chorus kicks in at just over a minute into the song, it just feels achingly flat.

With a band as monumental as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, when they come back from a long absence, you want so much for them to be there with something brilliant, something fantastically fresh - but instead we're left with Adventures..., which truth be told sounds like a second-rate b-side or album track.

When you think of the Chili's at their very best (and boy have they had some amazing moments), you think of the big, anthemic, singalong choruses. The Adventures Of Raindance Maggie? It's only 50% there...

The band's new album I'm With You is out on the 26th August and can be pre-ordered here.