UNITED KINGDOM: Foo Fighters look back at life and seek immortality on their seventh studio album release "Wasting Life"

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  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Foo Fighters look back at life and seek immortality on their seventh studio album release "Wasting Life"
  • Date: 12th April 2011
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (RECENT - FEBRUARY 2011) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) NATE MENDEL, BASSIST FOR THE FOO FIGHTERS, SAYING: "We took a good chunk of time off and everyone went off and did their own projects and it was fun but it feels good with the band and making music and getting back on the road."
  • Embargoed: 27th April 2011 13:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
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  • Story Text: U.S. alternative rockers The Foo Fighters focus on the passing of time and immortality on their latest studio album "Wasting Light" released on Monday (April 11) in Britain and Tuesday (April 12) in the United States.
    Lead singer and guitarist Dave Grohl talked about their seventh album in London ahead of the album's release.
    "There's a lot of reference to time and growing older and the past and thinking about how those things got me to where I am now. So they're in there somewhere but there are no nursery rhymes," Grohl said.
    "Wasting Light" is produced by Butch Vig, the mastermind behind "Nevermind", the seminal Nineties' album by Grohl's former band Nirvana. Vig also produced two tracks on the Foo Fighters' Greatest Hits album released in 2009. The new album also has another Nirvana connection, that of bassist Krist Novoselic.
    This latest album comes on the bank of the last Foos release "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" in 2007.
    After almost two decades in the music industry, Grohl says his music making method remains the same.
    "I kind of do everything rhythmically so the way I play guitar and the way I phrase vocals and the way I sequence songs, it has a lot of things to do with rhythm and tempo. So I can't let loose and feel it like I'm always connected to the patters we do, the cadence of a vocal, the way lines will rhyme the way they rhyme in twos and threes, like Rubik's cube shit," he explained.
    Bassist Nate Mendel said he was looking forward to creating new music and touring with the band.
    "We took a good chunk of time off and everyone went off and did their own projects and it was fun but it feels good with the band and making music and getting back on the road," he said.
    The Foo Fighters are set to play festivals in Europe and the United States this summer including Isle of Wight, T in the Park and Oxygen in the United Kingdom, Rock on Seine in France, and the Sasqatch! music festival in George, Washington.
    "Rope" is the debut single from the album.
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