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...bold break with their own tradition of high-powered guitar riffs and earth-shaking drums, Grammy winning rockers the Foo Fighters, led by Dave Grohl, offer a mellower, more sophisticated type of rock with their seventh album “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.” The result, although not always straight-ahead, still rocks...
...album progresses, Grohl slows the tempo and lowers the volume, and the album comes together. With songs like “Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)” and “Summer’s End,” the album is more subdued and sophisticated than other Foo Fighters offerings, yet the change is welcome...
...prides itself on gassed-up guitars and pounding drums, but once the listener gets over the shock, the ballad adds a great original touch to the album. The Foo Fighters softly close the album with the gentle piano melody of “Home,” which finds Grohl lamenting the passage of time...
With “Echoes,” the Foo Fighters definitively depart from their earlier style of guitar-heavy rock. But the evolution reveals a more sophisticated side of the band; thankfully, Grohl and company have learned that good rock doesn’t always have...
...photographed Stipe neck-high in the ocean and once woke him at 6 a.m. to catch the dawn light for a shoot. It's a testament to the respect Corbijn commands that pampered rock stars let him photograph them crawling naked along a riverbank (Iggy Pop), cross-dressing (Dave Grohl) or in a loincloth (David Bowie). They turn to him even in the full knowledge that he is liable to ignore their lyrics and make a video reinterpreting their song with his own narrative. "All my ideas come from the sound rather than the lyrics," says Corbijn. Rather than capturing...