Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience and Grace
Band Members
Dave Grohl - Guitar, Vocals
Taylor Hawkins - Drums
Nate Mendel - Bass
Chris Shiflett - Guitar
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Tracklisting
1. The Pretender
2. Let It Die
3. Erase Replace
4. Long Road to Ruin
5. Come Alive
6. Stranger Things Have Happened
7. Cheer Up Boys, Your Makeup is Running
8. Summer’s End
9. The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners
10. Statues
11. But Honestly
12. Home
13. Once and For All (Demo) [Bonus Track]
It’s must be hard being in the Foo Fighters, especially when you just can’t seem to do any wrong with each album you release. This latest record as hints from their past release ‘Skin and Bones’ as it makes nods to the Led Zeppelin era of rock and the more acoustic/folk sound they’ve been known to dabble in from time to time but they’ve woven in the hard and fast rock they are loved for too.
Kicking out of the bag with ‘The Pretender’, possibly one of THE tracks from 2007, the sound is clearly on form and the lyric writing goes from strength to strength as Grohl and the crew play with tongue in check and the passion they were made for. ‘Home’ being a later track in the listings is definitely worth waiting for as it is one of the softer lyrically driven tracks in the bunch but has a sweetness to it that is hard to pull off when you’re a respected rocker, but the Foo fighters have no issue here at all.
Although you’d expected nothing less than a great piece of music from the Foo Fighters there is still always that nagging doubt/fear that maybe the next record will go too far and then they will lose their cool but you will be, as I was, thankfully grateful that they are still going strong and are perhaps up there with the likes of U2 as one of those rock bands that even their less successful records are still better than most and their great stuff is gold, like time will I have no doubt show in the case of ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace’. You have no reason not to own this record!
Review by Laura Heath
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