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Track Listing
1. Pretender, The
2. Let It Die - (with Kaki King/Pat Smear)
3. Erase/Replace - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester)
4. Long Road to Ruin - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester)
5. Come Alive - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester)
6. Stranger Things Have Happened
7. Cheer up, Boys (Your Make up Is Running) - (with Drew Hester)
8. Summer's End - (with Drew Hester)
9. Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners - (with Kaki King)
10. Statues - (with Rami Jaffee/Brantley Kearns Jr.)
11. But, Honestly - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester)
12. Home
Album Notes
Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl (piano); Taylor Hawkins (background vocals); Nate Mendel.
Additional personnel: Kaki King, Pat Smear (guitar); Brantley Kearns Jr. (fiddle); Rami Jaffee (accordion); Drew Hester (percussion); Chris Shiflett.
ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE, the Foo Fighters' sixth effort, upholds the band's allegiance to melody-heavy post-grunge power pop driven by roaring guitars and Dave Grohl's fine songwriting. The Foos are aided by super-producer Gil Norton this time out (Norton also helped craft the group's second, and arguably best, album, THE COLOR AND THE SHAPE). The result is a polished yet powerful outing that proves the Foos have earned their status as one of alternative rock's most reliable acts.
But while tunes like "The Pretender" pack a hard-rock wallop, the real surprises on ECHOES are the softer songs. The breezy, folky "Summer's End," for example, is a standout, as is Grohl's solo acoustic performance on "Stranger Things Have Happened." This isn't to say the Foo Fighters have mellowed--the album contains as much amplified snarl as any of their others--but here the quieter moments rival the rockers, revealing a band whose intimate, earnest moments are as convincing as their head-banging ones.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #12 in Q's The 50 Best Albums Of 2007 -- [A] big, brash effort that hollered all the way back to the cheap seats without sacrificing its humanity.
[T]he Foo Fighters have managed to recapture the magic ingredient which magical music really needs -- the art of sounding effortless.
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he excellent 'Summer's End' is easy on the ear, easier still on the brain...
4 stars out of 5 -- Each of these tracks makes the case for Foo Fighters' horizons successfully expanding....Similarly, there's a sophistication to the arrangements here, musical and vocal, not previously hinted at.
Like the greats, the Foos have found a way to create their own archetype, with an instinctive feel for what constitutes a killer song. -- Grade: A
3 stars out of 5 -- Grohl has been a model of steady efficiency....'Summer's End' is a breezy blast of California country rock...
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Top Albums of the Year 2007 -- [T]he Foo Fighters deliver winners...
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