Most rewarding of all is the 10-minute long The Teacher, replete with multi-part riffs and tempo changes that call to mind Paul McCartney and Wings at their most epic, albeit with John Bonham’s ghost smashing through the soft rock contours, and John Lennon unleashing primal scream therapy on vocals. Show Me How offers pillows of soft rock harmonies for Grohl to mournfully duet with his teenage daughter, Violet, over a grungy groove that calls to mind Soundgarden at their most sombre. The fragile Rest is as broken up as a Sparklehorse lullaby until the band kick in with such force that I nearly jumped out of my seat the first time I heard it.
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Guitars howl at full power, whilst Grohl’s vocal is a screaming roar: “It came in a flash / It came out of nowhere / It happened so fast / And then it was over.”īut rather than plunge into unadulterated metal pain, the song shifts gear for a surprising singalong chorus: “We’re all just waiting to be rescued.” Even in despair, Grohl has forsaken none of his artful ability to piece different elements of music together, a songwriting style which perhaps owes something to thinking simultaneously from the points of view of rhythm section and topline melody. Grohl is back behind the kit for this one, thrashing his drums on opening track Rescued with a physical vigour that threatens to turn into a stampede. Lyrically, But Here We Are may not be particularly profound – projecting loss rather than investigating it – but it is sincere. Foo Fighters have been lots of fun over the years, but it has taken tragedy to push them towards something more vital. But that wasn’t a particularly downbeat offering and as Grohl’s band grew in number (there are currently six Foo members) and ascended to stadium-conquering status, they have rarely come across as particularly deep.Īs a guitar playing, raw-voiced, charismatic frontman, Grohl has fashioned something in his gregarious image, in which a huge span of classic rock and pop elements (where Black Sabbath meets Queen and Hüsker Dü dance with Bon Jovi) are smashed together with the anthemic bravado of a heavy rock showband. It is worth noting that the Foos were born of loss and grief, when the suicide of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in 1994 forced their powerhouse drummer out from the backline, to record a debut album of his own songs, in which he played all the instruments. Unsurprisingly, loss and grief lie at the core of the Foo Fighters’ most succinct and intense album. It marks the superpowered American rock band’s return to the studio following the sudden death of Grohl’s closest friend, fellow drummer and bandmate Taylor Hawkins, aged 50, in March last year, but also the death of Grohl’s mother, Virginia, aged 84, in August the same year.
“I had a person I loved and just like that, I was left to live without him.” The song is The Glass, the centrepiece of the Foo Fighters’ upcoming 11 th album, But Here We Are.
“I had a version of home and just like that, I was left to live without it,” sings Dave Grohl, with affecting understatement.
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