With blank white cover art, the mainstream US heavy rockers return with a strong, moving, passionate album mourning the loss of drummer and Dave Grohl’s best friend Taylor Hawkins who died in 2022, as well as tributes to his late mother, Virginia. The emotion is palpable, the references direct, the confessions and feelings of regret candid, and whether or not Foo Fighters is your musical bag, it’s hard to empathise with the lauded Nicest Man In Rock. “It came in a flash / It came out of nowhere / It happened so fast” he screams full-on, meaty opener Rescued, to the final track, Rest: “You will be safe now.” It being a Foo Fighters record, there’s plenty of ear-blistering guitar volume, with standouts including the title track But Here We Are, Under You, but there’s also variety, with the gentler, The Glass, or Hearing Voices a woozy haze of sound reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, but perhaps the highlight is the epic heart-rending 10-minute dynamism of The Teacher, a track inspired by the profession and practice of Grohl’s mother, to whom the track says farewell (“Try and make good with the air that's left / Countin' every minute, livin' breath by breath”) Powerful in all sorts of ways. Out on Roswell / RCA.
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