American grunge-pop outfit Foo Fighters are currently at the beginning stages of a new studio album.
Foo Fighters triumphed over adversity to become one of the most successful groups of their generation. Led by Dave Grohl, the band released a string of massively popular albums before deciding to take a break last year.
Dave Grohl went on to form Them Crooked Vultures, stepping behind the drum stool to work with Josh Homme and John Paul Jones. With their second album well under way, it seems that the jovial drummer has not forgotten his roots.
According to Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters have taken the first steps to recording a new album. Speaking to SpinnerMusic, Hawkins claimed that Dave Grohl had demoed more than a dozen new tracks.
“In all honesty, Dave (Grohl)’s got 15 or so song ideas that are awesome and we’ve already demoed some of them twice even,” the drummer told SpinnerMusic.
“We do a lot of demoing to find exactly the arrangements we want, getting them exactly how we want them.”
The new album would be the band’s seventh, and their first since 2007’s ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace’. Continuing, Taylor Hawkins claimed that the recording process could take some time.
“It’s a large process for us. It takes a long time to do it. We don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s go make a record and pop in the studio and record it just like that.’ There’s a lot of preproduction that goes into making a Foo Fighter record. Well, so far.”
Meanwhile, Taylor Hawkins is working on his own solo project which he claims he helped re-energise Foo Fighters. “All that stuff in the past, it’s proven to be recharging,” he explains.
“As long as everybody’s ready, as long as we don’t do it because we feel like we have to, like because the record company wants another record, that kind of crap never makes good music.”
