Foo Fighters 'Sonic Highways' LP Black Vinyl

With "Sonic Highways" the Foo Fighters embark on a search for the Holy Grail and the musical core of America. At the same time, a travel documentary was produced for the pay-TV station HBO, which premiered in the USA in October 2014. For their "Sonic Highways" the Foo Fighters literally choose new paths. After the gigantic success of their previous album, they could theoretically have afforded themselves anything. To a certain extent, they do.

The Foo Fighters recorded every track of the new album "Sonic Highways" in another 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 music styles that inspired the Foo Fighters in "Sonic Highways" are as different as the places themselves. That sounds like a colorful mix, but surprisingly it's not. Because "Sonic Highways" remains an album that sounds orthodox to 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 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 limits that Grohl sets. The Foo Fighters let the landscapes and history pass them by in the implementation of their musical concept and made their own thing out of what they experienced. The fans will be happy.

The opener "Something From Nothing" is a classic door opener with a great increase from introverted calm to a hissing outcry at the end. "Subterranean" comes across very thoughtful overall. "The Feast And The Famine" is musically grandiose with a stop-start riff that sounds musically as 'stubborn' as it should be for rebellious rock. And the epic "I Am A River" boasts with every note to be allowed to form the finale of the album.

LP black vinyl pressing

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