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foo fighters concrete and gold album download Here’s What We Know About Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold. Foo Fighters are back next month with Concrete and Gold , the group’s ninth album and first since 2014’s Sonic Highways . The alternative rock legends’ upcoming effort features a few intriguing storylines, including Dave Grohl’s period of seclusion after breaking his leg, the decision to bring in the producer of Adele’s “Hello,” and a high-profile collaboration that Grohl has remained tight-lipped about. Before Concrete and Gold ’s September 15 release, here is a rundown of everything we know about the record. The album is 11 songs long. 1. T-Shirt 2. Run 3. Make It Right 4. The Sky Is a Neighborhood 5. La Dee Da 6. Dirty Water 7. Arrows 8. Happy Ever After (Zero Hour) 9. Sunday Rain 10. The Line 11. Concrete and Gold. Two have been officially released, and another two have been played live. “Run” was put out as the lead single in June and “The Sky Is a Neighborhood” dropped on Wednesday. Foo Fighters have also played “Sunday Rain” and “La Dee Da” at concerts earlier this year. Here’s what the cover looks like. The minimalistic album art follows the tradition of the Foo Fighters rarely appearing on their own album covers. The only exception is 2011’s Wasting Light , which captured the band in an artistically altered portrait. Dave Grohl started writing Concrete and Gold as he recovered from his broken leg. Grohl broke his leg when he fell off stage during a show in Sweden in 2015 and continued to perform while seated on a “throne.” The frontman’s leg didn’t make it back to 100 percent, and the Foo Fighters went on hiatus as Grohl stepped away from music to physically heal. Grohl cut the planned year-long sabbatical to six months and rented an Airbnb in Ojala, California to get started writing Concrete and Gold in isolation. “I don’t think I was inspired at first,” he told Rolling Stone . “I just felt like I was creatively atrophied and had to start to exercise in order to wake the muscle up. After maybe 12 or 13 ideas, I send them to the guys and ask, ‘Am I crazy? Or is this a record?’ They say, ‘Both.'” The album’s title refers to its theme. Grohl explained to BBC Radio 6 Music that Concrete and Gold encapsulates the “sort of a theme within the eleven songs that goes from beginning to end, so this is kind of the resolve of the entire record.” The hook of the title track, the album’s closer, goes, “I have an engine made of gold, something so beautiful. The world will never know. Our roots are stronger than you know. Up through the concrete we will grow.” Boyz II Men will make an appearance. Well, one of them does. Grohl told BBC 6 Radio’s Shaun Keaveny’s that he ran into Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman in a random parking lot and asked him to appear on the album. As a result, Stockman appears on Concrete and Gold ’s “heaviest song.” Grohl said Stockman built a choir stacked with 40 voices that results to something that “sounds like Sabbath and Pink Floyd.” Cooleyhighharmony will meet metal on Concrete and Gold . Greg Kurstin is Concrete and Gold ’s producer. Kurstin produced Sia’s breakout single “Chandelier,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger,” and most famously, Adele’s “Hello.” Grohl had been listening to Kurstin’s work with his indie band, the Bird and the Bee, since 2014. Paul McCartney and Alison Mosshart will pop up, too. The Beatle plays drums on “Sunday Rain,” and the Kill delivers vocals on “La Dee Da” and “The Sky Is a Neighborhood.” Foo Fighters have already played “Sunday Rain” and “La Dee Da,” sans McCartney and Mosshart, in live performances. Concrete and Gold also has another another collaborator, who Grohl once considered “the biggest pop star in the world.” In another BBC Radio 1 interview back in June, Dave Grohl teased that their latest album would feature “the biggest pop star in the world.” He walked back on his comments in a Rolling Stone July interview, saying the person “is more than that.” It’s been rumored that it was either Taylor Swift or Adele (the latter because of the Kurstin connection), but Grohl shot those down. Another possibility that still stands, though, is Lady Gaga, who’s been chummy with Grohl in the past. Update (2:10 p.m. Eastern, 9/6): It turns out that pop star is Justin Timberlake. A Rolling Stone profile revealed that Grohl and Timberlake became buds during the recording process. He contributes some “la la la’s” to an album cut. This is be Rami Jaffee’s first album as an official Foo Fighter. The keyboardist has been appearing as a session musician on Foo Fighter albums since 2005’s In Your Honor. Jaffee has also worked with acts like the Wallflowers, Pete Yorn, and Coheed and Cambria. On Concrete and Gold , Foo Fighters get political. His time writing in California just so happens to fall within a period of political chaos. “It happened at the perfect time,” he also told Rolling Stone . “I was inspired by what was going on with our country – politically, personally, as a father, an American and a musician. There was a lot to write about.” Grohl has also described Concrete and Gold as a “Motorhead’s version of Sgt. Pepper. “ Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold album review. Dave Grohl and co. tackle our dark political age with the sounds of hard rock’s golden age. By Mark Beaumont 05 September 2017. At the end of the sonic highway, David Eric Grohl found that the rock’n’roll spirit he’s spent the whole decade chasing was an era, not a place. After the Foo Fighters recorded 2011’s Wasting Light in his garage to invoke the ghost of his spotty punk teens, they set out across America making 2014’s Sonic Highways in some of the most storied and historic studios in the country, hoping rock magic was to be found clogging up Nashville microphones or ingrained into the antique mixing desk dials of Chicago, Seattle or NYC. Rock’n’roll wasn’t a tourist destination, it was the records that made you. It was Sgt Pepper and the White Album, The Dark Side Of The Moon and Paranoid ; it was Led Zeppelin IV , Raw Power , Ace Of Spades and High Voltage . It was, by and large, the dark and magical festering pot of 1967-73, and for the Foos’ ninth album it would be here that Grohl and co.would mine sonic concrete and melodic gold. Bizarrely bringing in Adele and Sia producer Greg Kurstin (of indie poppers The Bird And The Bee), the mission statement for Concrete And Gold was “where hard rock extremes and pop sensibilities collide [like] Motörhead’s version of Sgt Pepper ”. The finished product is actually more like AC/DC having a crack at making their White Album, in that it’s as varied, expansive and crammed with drug-crusted invention as a band embedded in blues and hard rock can get. For a record relatively light on pop-rock stadium slayers, it’s also easily the Foos’ most elemental album yet. Its trick is to frack the grungier seam of that fervid age of hard rock invention, the records straddling the turn of the 70s that drove a pickaxe of drugs and feedback into the brain of flower power and sounded like they were made by men who’d worked out that the devil had all the best heroin. Some parts of Concrete And Gold are shameless in their late/post-Beatles tributism – Sunday Rain could be the cast of Hair covering a cynical Lennon tune like I Found Out or Dig A Pony , the gorgeous acoustic shuffle Happy Ever After (Zero Hour) is an homage to Blackbird , I Will , Mother Nature’s Son and Across The Universe so reverential that it’s even in mono for the first verse. And for one billion kudos points he gets Paul McCartney drumming on an as-yet-undisclosed track. Because, presumably, he can. Elsewhere, Concrete And Gold plays somewhat sillier – and more manipulative – buggers with its source material. Opener T-Shirt finds Grohl mimicking a gentle 60s Motown singer for the first 30 seconds, before 1973 Aerosmith invade the booth and ‘space harmonise’ the tune into the power ballad ether. The inevitable Zeppelin riffs merge with the inevitable Tommy power chords to create Make It Right , and there are some quite brilliant ‘what ifs’ here. what if Alice Cooper had made I Am The Walrus? You get the surprisingly enjoyable The Sky Is A Neighbourhood, an epic of orchestral anger and ominous squealing. What if Black Sabbath had ditched The Wizard and gotten heavily into Wizzard? That’ll be La Dee Da , a devil’s boogie. Sabbath wouldn’t have needed to ditch the apocalyptic war stuff though; Grohl keeps an album so deeply rooted in the 60s/70s crossover fresh by inserting contemporary guests such as The Kills’ Allison Mosshart and The Bird And Bee’s Inara George (plus a secret appearance by “probably the biggest pop star in the world” – our money’s on Paul Nuttall), and by theming the album around the “hope and desperation” of America’s current political calamity. “You get what you deserve,” he tells his fellow Americans on T-Shirt , even going on to sketch a typical Trump supporter driven into the arms of jingoism by hardship and fear on the pounding Arrows.