Sure, Taylor Hawkins may have spoken of an indefinite Foo Fighters hiatus last March, but those who have followed the band’s career knew better. Dave Grohl can’t sit still at the best of times, so the suggestion that his major artistic vessel was to be put on ice was frankly ridiculous.
Although the band haven’t released an album since 2014’s Sonic Highways, they gifted us two EPs in 2015: Songs From The Laundry Room (which was a Record Store Day collection of Grohl solo demos which dated from ’91 and ’92) and the five-song, rock explosion Saint Cecilia.
Granted, they were quiet throughout 2016, but in the past few days they announced they would be headlining BottleRock Napa Valley Festival in May, which lead to BottleRock organiser Dave Graham spilling the beans on a new album.
“The Foo Fighters are in the studio all next year recording a new album, and BottleRock may be their only show in 2017 in North America,” he told the Napa Valley Register. (Note: the interview was done last year, and so ‘next year’ means ‘this year’.)
The album will mark the band’s ninth full-length record, and bodes well for a 2017 release. Let’s hope it times out well with our summer festival season. If anyone is going to bring back the Big Day Out, it’ll be the Foo Fighters. Ah well, we can dream…
