{"id":32388,"date":"2017-06-21T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=32388"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T23:33:22","slug":"foo-fighters-ninth-opus-concrete-gold-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2017\/06\/foo-fighters-ninth-opus-concrete-gold-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"FOO FIGHTERS ninth opus ‘Concrete and Gold’ announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI wanted it to be the biggest sounding Foo Fighters record ever. To make a gigantic rock record but with Greg Kurstin\u2019s sense of melody and arrangement\u2026 Motorhead\u2019s version of Sgt. Pepper\u2026 or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

So speaks Dave Grohl of the mission statement made manifest in Foo Fighters\u2019 ninth epic, the aptly titled CONCRETE AND GOLD, due out September 15th worldwide on Roswell Records\/RCA Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia and available for preorder now<\/a>. Fans who pre order through JB HiFi<\/a> have a chance to win their way to CAL JAM 17 \u2013 more details on that below.<\/p>\n

Just as Foo Fighters\u2019 anthem of the summer \u2018Run\u2019 \u201copens as a dreamy, slow burner then\u2026 quickly turns heavy as thunder\u201d (BILLBOARD) with its \u201chuge triumphant chorus\u201d (STEREOGUM), CONCRETE AND GOLD marries some of the most insanely heavy FF riffs ever with lush harmonic complexities courtesy of a first time team-up with producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia,Pink).<\/p>\n

This unlikely alliance came about through a bizarre sequence of surprise musical obsessions and chance encounters: Listening to the radio during a drive roughly four years ago, Grohl first heard \u2018Again and Again\u2019 by Kurstin\u2019s band The Bird & The Bee\u2014\u201cIt blew my mind\u2026 it was so much more sophisticated than anything I\u2019d ever heard and I became obsessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some months later, Grohl would randomly spot and fanboy out over \u201cthe guy from The Bird & The Bee!\u201d aka Greg Kurstin. The two became fast friends over common musical loves with Grohl learning that his new favourite band had been on hiatus due to Kurstin\u2019s workload as a producer.<\/p>\n

While Foo Fighters recorded and released SONIC HIGHWAYS, broke some bones and packed stadiums and arenas on one of the top five grossing tours of 2015, and gifted fans with the ST. CECILIA EP, “Greg was becoming one of the biggest producers in the world,\u201d Grohl recalls.<\/p>\n

With the writing and recording of the next Foo Fighters album on the horizon, Grohl was eager as always to find fresh challenges for the band: \u201cSo I think maybe Greg is the guy that we ask to be our producer because he\u2019s never made a heavy rock record before and we\u2019ve never worked with a pop producer.\u201d Darrel Thorp (Beck, Radiohead) was soon enlisted to mix and engineer. This collective conceived a blueprint of the new record as “Motorhead\u2019s version of Sgt. Pepper… or something like that,\u201d secretly booking into Hollywood\u2019s esteemed EastWest studios to consummate this marriage of extremes… or as Grohl puts it: \u00a0\u201cOur noise and Greg\u2019s big brain and all of his sophisticated arrangements and composition.\u201d<\/p>\n