Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (2014) {RCA}
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Rock / Post-Grunge / Alternative / Indie
Nobody ever
would've thought the Foo Fighters were gearing up for a hiatus following
the vibrant 2011 LP Wasting Light, but the group announced just that in
2012. It was a short-lived break, but during that time-off, lead Foo
Dave Grohl filmed an ode to the classic Los Angeles recording studio
Sound City, which in turn inspired the group's 2014 album, Sonic
Highways. Constructed as an aural travelog through the great rock &
roll cities of America -- a journey that was documented on an
accompanying HBO mini-series of the same name -- Sonic Highways picks up
the thread left dangling from Sound City: Real to Reel; it celebrates
not the coiled fury of underground rock exploding into the mainstream,
the way the '90s-happy Wasting Light did, but rather the classic rock
that unites the U.S. from coast to coast.
No matter the
cameo here -- and there are plenty of guests, all consciously different
from the next, all bending to the needs of their hosts -- the common
denominator is the pumping amps, sky-scraping riffs, and sugary melodies
that so identify the sound of arena rock at its pre-MTV peak. There are
a few unexpected wrinkles, as when Ben Gibbard comes aboard to give
"Subterranean" a canned electronic pulse and Tony Visconti eases the
closing "I Am a River" into a nearly eight-minute epic, but the brief
eight-song album just winds up sounding like nothing else but the Foo
Fighters at their biggest, burliest, and loudest. They've become the
self-proclaimed torch barriers for real rock, championing the music's
history but also blessedly connecting the '70s mainstream and '80s
underground so it's all one big nation ruled by six-strings. That the
mainstream inevitably edges out the underground on Sonic Highways is
perhaps inevitable -- it is the common rock language, after all -- but
even if there's a lingering predictability in the paths the Foo Fighters
follow on Sonic Highways, they nevertheless know how to make this
familiar journey pleasurable. |
tracklist:
01 - Something From Nothing
02 - The Feast And The Famine
03 - Congregation
04 - What Did I Do , God As My Witness
05 - Outside
06 - In The Clear
07 - Subterranean
08 - I Am A River
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