Foo Fighters’ upcoming album is devoted to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins, and Dave Grohl’s late mom Virginia Hanlon Grohl.
The ‘Stroll’ rockers will launch ‘However Right here We Are’ on June 2, they usually’ve shared that the report is in honour of their bandmate – who was tragically discovered useless in his resort room in Colombia in March 2022, aged 50, hours earlier than the band was on account of play a competition in Bogotá – and the frontman’s mother or father, who handed away the identical yr.
Sharing the minimalist white cassette and album cowl for the LP, which is designed by Morning Breath INC, Foos tweeted the album dedication: “For Virginia and Taylor.”
The follow-up to 2021’s ‘Drugs at Midnight’ is described as: “A brutally sincere and emotionally uncooked response to every part Foo Fighters endured over the past yr.”
The ‘Everlong’ rockers reunited with producer Greg Kurstin on the 10-track assortment, which indicators their new period.
A press launch provides that the album is “knowledgeable by many years of maturity and depth.”
It continues: “‘However Right here We Are’ is the sound of brothers discovering refuge within the music that introduced them collectively within the first place 28 years in the past, a course of that was as therapeutic because it was a couple of continuation of life.”
To date, followers have heard the singles ‘Rescued’ and ‘Underneath You’.
The ‘Better of You’ hitmakers vowed to be “a unique band going ahead” following the devastating lack of Taylor.
In a letter to followers, they shared: “As we are saying goodbye to essentially the most tough and tragic yr that our band has ever recognized, we’re reminded of how grateful we’re for the those that we love and cherish most, and for the family members who’re not with us.
“Foo Fighters had been shaped 27 years in the past to characterize the therapeutic energy of music and a continuation of life. And for the previous 27 years our followers have constructed a worldwide group, a loyal assist system that has helped us all get via the darkest of occasions collectively. A spot to share our pleasure and our ache, our hopes and fears, and to hitch in a refrain of life collectively via music. With out Taylor, we by no means would have develop into the band that we had been — and with out Taylor, we all know that we will be a unique band going ahead.
“We additionally know that you simply, the followers, meant as a lot to Taylor as he meant to you and we all know that once we see you once more — and we’ll quickly — he’ll be there in spirit with all of us each evening.”
