Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Entertainment Weekly: "Like the greats, the Foos have found a way to create their own archetype, with an instinctive feel for what constitutes a killer song." -- Grade: A

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Released: September 25, 2007
Originally Released: 2007
Label: Rca

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - p.116

Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "[T]he Foo Fighters deliver winners..."

Spin - p.122

3 stars out of 5 -- "Grohl has been a model of steady efficiency....'Summer's End' is a breezy blast of California country rock..."

Entertainment Weekly - p.104

"Like the greats, the Foos have found a way to create their own archetype, with an instinctive feel for what constitutes a killer song." -- Grade: A

Q - p.87

4 stars out of 5 -- "Each of these tracks makes the case for Foo Fighters' horizons successfully expanding....Similarly, there's a sophistication to the arrangements here, musical and vocal, not previously hinted at."

Uncut - p.88

3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he excellent 'Summer's End' is easy on the ear, easier still on the brain..."

Kerrang (Magazine) - p.46

"[T]he Foo Fighters have managed to recapture the magic ingredient which magical music really needs -- the art of sounding effortless."

Q (Magazine) - p.84

Ranked #12 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[A] big, brash effort that hollered all the way back to the cheap seats without sacrificing its humanity."

Tracks:

$1.29 on iTunes1.The Pretender
$1.29 on iTunes2.Let It Die
$1.29 on iTunes3.Erase / Replace
$1.29 on iTunes4.Long Road to Ruin
$1.29 on iTunes5.Come Alive
$1.29 on iTunes6.Stranger Things Have Happened
$1.29 on iTunes7.Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)
$1.29 on iTunes8.Summer's End
$1.29 on iTunes9.Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners
$1.29 on iTunes10.Statues
$1.29 on iTunes11.But, Honestly
$1.29 on iTunes12.Home

Product Description:

Personnel: Kaki King, Pat Smear (guitar); Brantley Kearns Jr. (fiddle); Rami Jaffee (accordion, keyboards); Taylor Hawkins (piano, background vocals); Dave Grohl (piano); Drew Hester (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Rich Costey.

Recording information: Studio 606, Northridge, CA.

Photographers: Laura Kleinhenz; Ben Watts.

ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE, the Foo Fighters' sixth effort, upholds the band's allegiance to melody-heavy post-grunge power pop driven by roaring guitars and Dave Grohl's fine songwriting. The Foos are aided by super-producer Gil Norton this time out (Norton also helped craft the group's second, and arguably best, album, THE COLOR AND THE SHAPE). The result is a polished yet powerful outing that proves the Foos have earned their status as one of alternative rock's most reliable acts.

But while tunes like "The Pretender" pack a hard-rock wallop, the real surprises on ECHOES are the softer songs. The breezy, folky "Summer's End," for example, is a standout, as is Grohl's solo acoustic performance on "Stranger Things Have Happened." This isn't to say the Foo Fighters have mellowed--the album contains as much amplified snarl as any of their others--but here the quieter moments rival the rockers, revealing a band whose intimate, earnest moments are as convincing as their head-banging ones.