With “Sonic Highways”, the Foo Fighters embark on a search for the Holy Grail or the musical core of America. At the same time, a travel documentary was produced for the pay-TV channel HBO, which premiered in the USA in October 2014. For their “Sonic Highways”, the Foo Fighters are literally breaking new ground. After the gigantic success of their previous album, they could theoretically have done anything. To a certain extent, they did.
The Foo Fighters recorded every track on the new album “Sonic Highways” in a different American city. They used the most famous studios of all, e.g. Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, The Magic Shop Recording Studio in New York or Rancho de la Luna in California. Blues, country, folk, punk - the musical styles that inspired the Foo Fighters in “Sonic Highways” are as diverse as the locations. That sounds like a 'colorful mix', but surprisingly it's not. Because “Sonic Highways” remains an album that sounds orthodoxly Foo Fighters.
“Sonic Highways” has lyrical allusions to places and people. There are also powerful songs like “Congregation”, recorded in Nashville, the home of gospel: the song sounds like 'church' in all its bombast, but like a church in which the Foo Fighters are religion. This means that the gospel and the musicians that Dave Grohl interviewed in Nashville to develop the lyrics for the song play a subordinate role. The image of the journey through and into American music history therefore has the boundaries that Grohl sets. In realizing their musical concept, the Foo Fighters let the landscapes and history pass them by and made their own thing out of what they experienced. The fans will be pleased.
The opener “Something From Nothing” is a classic door opener with a great build-up from introverted calm to a snarling scream at the end. “Subterranean” comes across as very thoughtful overall. “The Feast And The Famine” is musically grandiose with a stop-start riff that sounds musically ‘stubborn’, as befits rebellious rock. And the epic “I Am A River” flaunts its right to be the album's finale with every note.
Tracklisting:
1: Something from nothing
2: The feast and the famine
3: Congregation
4: What did i do?/god as my witness
5: Outside
6: In the clear
7: Subterranean
8: I am a river
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