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ALBUM REVIEW

Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on

‘But Here We Are’
The band’s first album since the death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins is
explosive, emotional and inspired.

By Lindsay Zoladz

June 2, 2023

For all Dave Grohl’s grinning joviality, it’s easy to forget that his long-running
rock group Foo Fighters was, initially, a solo project born of grief. The former
Nirvana drummer recorded Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut album in autumn 1994
to fill the sudden, haunting quiet in the months after his bandmate Kurt Cobain’s
death by suicide. His songs were pummeling but tuneful, and his sense of melody
seemed just as innate as his command of rhythm.

Grohl made a uniquely graceful transition from behind the kit to center stage,
and over the next three decades, his easy charisma and workhorse drive have
helped the Foos survive long past the ’90s alt-rock boom and into a present where
they are one of the genre’s last true mainstream powerhouses. At this point, Foo
Fighters haven’t just outlasted Nirvana — Grohl has been making Foo Fighters
records for longer than Cobain was alive.

Grohl eventually expanded the Foos into a proper band, bringing on a core roster
that included the explosive, ecstatic drummer Taylor Hawkins. After Hawkins’s
untimely death last March at 50, many paid tribute by noting how excellent a
drummer must be to play in a band with Grohl and not make listeners wish Grohl
himself were drumming. But Hawkins was that good, and the palpably deep bond
the two shared was one of the surest energy sources that kept the band humming
all these years.

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