Foo Fighters’ New Album Doesn’t Sound Like ‘Shame Shame’

Foo Fighters dropped the brand new, funky music “Shame Shame” earlier this week, and introduced the upcoming album Medication at Midnight. The music showcased an eccentric new facet of the band, however Dave Grohl insists that it is not consultant of the album’s sound as an entire.

Grohl and drummer Taylor Hawkins not too long ago joined Spotify’s International Head of Rock, Allison Hagendorf, on the “Rock This” podcast to talk concerning the music. In keeping with Grohl, the band began recording the brand new album round this time final yr, and that is once they determined to change issues up a bit.

“We wrote numerous these songs to be performed in stadiums — these massive grooves, massive choruses, massive guitars. It was actually type of designed to be this massive celebration album,” the frontman described. “We had regarded again on all of the stuff we might achieved during the last 25 years like, ‘We have achieved this noisy, punk rock stuff. We have achieved mild, acoustic stuff. We have achieved three-and-a-half, four-minute lengthy radio-rock, singalong singles.”

“However we have by no means achieved like that groove-oriented, type of — Let’s Dance [by] David Bowie, Energy Station, the Cars, [Rolling Stones‘] Tattoo You — these rock albums that might make you stand up and transfer and dance,” Grohl continued. “We’ve not achieved that but, so we went into the studio with that in thoughts… I do not even wanna say it is like our ‘dance file,’ however it’s acquired grooves that we have by no means had earlier than, so that they form of make you bounce round.”

Of the batch of songs the band recorded collectively, the singer affirms that there have been some that have been “immediately recognizable” as being the Foo Fighters. Nonetheless, “Disgrace Disgrace” stood out a lot to them that it shocked them in a approach that bands do not usually really feel once they’ve been making music collectively for a very long time. So, they rolled with it.

That is not to say the complete album will sound like “Disgrace Disgrace,” although.

“However as a result of it is in contrast to something we have ever achieved, I believed, ‘Okay effectively it is a good place to begin.’ This needs to be the very first thing individuals hear as a result of it is indicative of this, type of left flip that we have taken slightly bit,” Grohl defined of the choice to make the music their first single from this album.

Hearken to the total interview in Episode 5 of “Rock This With Allison Hagendorf” beneath.