The album takes multiple pendulum swings between the heavy & the heartfelt and lands somewhere in the middle. It feels utterly devasting at times, while also being incredibly uplifting and hopeful at others. It’s a hell of a way to end an emotional rollercoaster of an album.īut Here We Are is an overwhelming odyssey of differing feelings. Rest, the album’s closing track is a sparse ballad that builds to a cacophony of sadness and electric hums as over a simple drum beat and Grohl’s fraught vocals. The 10 minute opus The Teacher provides the album with one last adrenaline shot before the last song tears your heart to pieces. The lush harmonies that cut through Beyond Me are sure to get lighters in the air when played live.

From the lush dream pop-esque Show Me How featuring Violet Grohl on guest vocals. The second half of the album features some of its most fragile and poignant moments. The title track & Nothing At All are both up tempo stompers featuring some throat ripping vocal work and melodies that will live inside your head so long you’ll consider charging them rent. Its chill inducing stuff that will bring a tear to the eye. Hearing Voices is so haunting and beautiful, building to a stark and vulnerable ending as the band drops out and it’s down to Dave, an acoustic guitar and piano. Under You is a tender rocker that laments on the nature of loss and the strength it takes to come out from under it. Rescued is a stadium sized anthem that immediately rips the emotional band aid, opening the floodgates for what is to follow. The raw emotion that runs through this album is palpable & visceral, but it is punctuated by a hopeful undercurrent. This 11th studio album sees the band come to terms with not only the collective loss of Taylor Hawkins, but also the loss of Dave Grohl’s Mother Virginia. But Here We Are is an album that’s hard to imagine them wanting to make, but it was vital that they did. It seems unfathomable that they are once again facing the horrors of loss.

The very existence of the Foo Fighters as a band comes from a place of grief.

Overall Score: 9/10 Songs: 9/10 Production: 8/10 Replay Value: 9/10 Pros: A stunning return from Foo Fighters & A wonderful tribute Cons: virtually nothing

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