Foo Fighters.

The albums that were recorded before the pandemic started are still coming out. One of them is the new album Medicine At Midnight. The main driving force behind the release of this album, the Foo Fighters, is unquestionably David Grohl, originally the drummer for Cobain's Nirvana. Grohl formed the Foo Fighters in 1994 in Seattle and the following year, as the only official member of the ensemble, released their first eponymously titled album. Initially, the relatively frequent personnel changes in the lineup slowly subsided over time and crystallized into the lineup of Dave Grohl, Nate Mandel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shifflet and Rami Jaffee. The latter is a longtime keyboardist and was officially added to the band's roster in 2017. Compared to Foos' most recent release to date, Concrete And Gold (2017), the new record is more free of politics and has a shorter cumulative running time. The nine tracks, lasting a total of 37 minutes, can be completed in one sitting and still leave you with a taste for repeat listens. Opener Making a Fire impresses with a prominent guitar riff and a somewhat cheesy lilt, obviously intended for stadium shows. Second in order is Shame Shame, imaginative in creation, dropped with a superfluous digital hand clap. Excellent is Cloudspotter with a strong chorus. It breathes tension and honest musicianship. The urgent ballad entitled Waiting On A War has an unusual structure due to the chosen accelerando effect. The title track Medicine At Midnight is the fifth track, clearly has hit-making ambitions and features a guitar solo, of which there are very few on the record indeed. A nice softening of an otherwise energy-laden track list is the album's penultimate track, the more or less acoustic Chasing Birds. Conversely, the last song Love Dies Young could easily be a number two or three on another FF album due to its tempo, guitar riff, lyrics and instrumentation. With Midnight Medicine, the Foo Fighters offer a very fine set of songs with some likeable innovations. It's worth coming back to them more than once and giving the volume a good right.