Foo Fighters launch ‘emotionally uncooked’ first music since Taylor Hawkins’ dying 

Foo Fighters come roaring again to rock on “Rescued,” the band’s first music for the reason that dying of beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022.

And you may really feel the ghost of Hawkins within the haunting refrain: “We’re all free to a point/To bop below the lights/I’m simply ready to be rescued/Convey me again to life.”

Again in ferocious type, you’ll be able to hear the revived Foos rising from their mourning after Hawkins died at 50 from a suspected overdose whereas the group was on tour in South America.

“It got here in a flash/It got here out of nowhere/It occurred so quick/After which it was over,” sings frontman Dave Grohl, seemingly referencing Hawkins’ passing firstly of the music.

Later, Grohl hints at his deep grief: “I fell in a entice/My coronary heart’s getting colder.” Then the singer repeats a plea to “rescue me tonight,” as if he needs he might have saved Hawkins.

“Rescued” dropped Wednesday because the Foo Fighters introduced “However Right here We Are,” their eleventh studio album, due June 2.

It’s the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s follow-up to 2021’s “Medication at Midnight,” which arrived simply 4 months earlier than Hawkins’ dying.

A press launch describes “However Right here We Are” as “a brutally trustworthy and emotionally uncooked response to the whole lot Foo Fighters endured during the last 12 months” and “a testomony to the therapeutic powers of music.”

The discharge continues, “ ‘However Right here We Are’ is the sound of brothers discovering refuge within the music that introduced them collectively within the first place 28 years in the past, a course of that was as therapeutic because it was a couple of continuation of life.”