The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. At the time of the album's announcement, a replacement for Hawkins had still not been publicly disclosed.

Produced by longtime collaborator Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, 11th album ‘But Here We Are’ is described as “the first chapter of the band’s new life” and “a brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything [the band] endured over the last year” as “a testament to the healing powers of music, friendship and family”. I'm old enough to remember when In utero by Nirvana was released so when Foo Fighters came on the scene, I remember a lot of people dismissing them.

It was later disclosed that Grohl performed the drums on the album, his first drumming credit on a Foo Fighters studio album since 2005. then "colour and the shape" came out, that album utterly blew me away and I saw them play live at manchester apollo that year.

We have a very limited number of lyric booklets used at the band’s private listening sessions to give away. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Numerous critics and publications listed But Here We Are in their year-end ranking of the best albums of 2023. But Here We Are is in nearly equal measure the 11th Foo Fighters album and the first chapter of the band’s new life. after that, their albums were a bit of a let down, they had good songs but they weren't great albums, something that I maintained up until "But Here We Are" came out, nothing will ever be as good as "the colour and the shape" but this album is definitely a close 2nd. Despite this, all plans were abruptly cancelled after longtime drummer, Taylor Hawkins, unexpectedly died in March 2022.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. it feels like the songs are genuinely heartfelt rather than an obligatory effort made before going on tour and having fun. Moyles would later apologize for speaking out of turn on the subject, but refused to clarify his comments. As early as mid-2021, Dave Grohl had already been planning for a follow up album to Medicine at Midnight (2021). The album was later officially announced on April 19, 2023, alongside its official title, But Here We Are.The band cancelled everything planned for the rest of the year, largely going quiet and leaving their future uncertain. Grohl noted that each album the band records is a response to the prior one, and in response to Medicine at Midnight, he was considering writing "an insane prog-rock record". I have noticed some complaints about the artwork of this album, to me it feels like it was the right artwork. The first single, " Rescued", was released concurrently with the announcement of the album on April 19.