Foo Fighers have revealed the title and track listing to their much anticipated seventh release, which is due out in the US on April 12th. Entitled Wasting Light, the album is to be preceded by the single ‘Rope’ due out on March 1st. (as a digital download and a free pressie for fans who pre-order the record on iTunes) The album was largely recorded by Grohl and Nirvana producer Butch Vig in Grohl’s San Fernando Valley, California garage.
He says of the pre-production for the recording, which was largely made on analogue gear: “I literally backed the minivan out of the garage, pulled the lawnmower out, put a drum set in it and set up mics. We soundproofed the garage door so that my neighbours wouldn’t call the fucking cops.”
Reflecting on working with Vig, who produced Nirvana’s iconic Nevermind, he says “Going back to make an album with a producer you’ve worked with before is not unlike going back and fucking a girlfriend you had 20 years ago. It can either be really good or a total fucking disaster. But it was perfectly natural and totally comfortable and he’s the same person he was 20 years ago. He wears cologne now. I think that’s the only difference.”
Featuring guest appearances from former Nirvana band mates Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, Grohl threatens that the album will be the band’s heaviest in a long time. He reckons “There’s 11 songs and front to back, there’s not one sleepy ballad.”
Wasting Light tracklist:
Bridge Burning
Rope
Dear Rosemary
White Limo
Arlandria
These Days
Back & Forth
A Matter Of Time
Miss The Misery
I Should Have Known
Walk
