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Controls for bare backstreets2/7/2024 With his band, the High Flying Birds, essentially an open-ended parade of guests, including ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, Council Skies edges Noel farther away from Britpop while reconnecting him with his Mancunian roots. With Blur gearing up for two huge Wembley Stadium dates, and Pulp adding more shows to their summer tour, the second coming of Britpop is in full swing.īut the band that most emphatically defined Cool Britannia, Oasis, are pointedly avoiding the 1990s reunion frenzy - and the arrival of Noel Gallagher's first solo album in six years suggests things are going to stay that way, at least for now. The arrival of Noel Gallagher's (pictured) first solo album in six years suggests Oasis are sto continue to avoid a reunion NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING-BIRDS: Council Skies (Sour Mash) The Teacher, a ten-minute epic and the longest track the band have ever recorded, ponders an afterlife of 'soul and spirit, moving through'.Īnd the closing track, Rest, is an elegy to both Hawkins and Grohl's mother, Virginia, who died last August: 'In the warm Virginia sun, there I will meet you,' he sings.įor all its poignancy, But Here We Are manages to preserve all of the Foo Fighters' hard-rocking vitality - and that's some feat. Grohl digs deepest as the album nears the end. Grohl's teenage daughter Violet sings dreamily on Show Me How, a song about love as much as loss. Nothing At All opens by mimicking the 1970s pop-reggae of The Police before morphing into a psychedelic rocker.īeyond Me skips between guitar and a piano motif that echoes The Beatles' Golden Slumbers. With Greg Kurstin in the producer's seat for the third album running, there are inventive touches and harmonic twists. It's as if Grohl, who drums on a Foos Fighters record for the first time since 2005, is pulling out all the stops in honour of his late soulmate.ĭespite that, not everything here is fired off at breakneck pace. In the band's new album 'Here We Are,' Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl (pictured) drums for the first time since 2005 Driven by Nate Mendel's bass, Under You is full-pelt Foos. The guitars of Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Grohl mesh loudly on the title track. If Grohl's lyrics are reflective, the music is anything but. 'Think I'm getting over it, but there's no getting over it,' he adds on Under You. 'I had a person I loved and, just like that, I was left to live without him,' sings Grohl on The Glass, a powerful rock number pitched, in typical Foos style, between the grunge attack of his old band, Nirvana (for whom he was the drummer), and the tuneful jangle of The Beatles. Made in the shadow of the sudden death in March 2022 of drummer Taylor Hawkins, the band's 11th album is a raw meditation on loss and grief. As such, it contemplates not just bereavement but the circle of life, the ties that bind and the healing power of music. It wasn't broke, so singer Dave Grohl saw no need to fix it.īut Here We Are is cut from very different cloth. The last two Foo Fighters albums have been a case of business as usual - bruising, escapist rock and roll played with a sense of fun and a keen ear for a good hook.īoth 2017's Concrete And Gold and 2021's Covid-delayed Medicine At Midnight captured an American rock outfit playing pop.
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