It’s Times Like These that we are happy to learn Foo Fighters are back with new single ‘Run’, and they have a Dave Grohl directed video to go with it. You can have it all on Gigwise below.
The new cut, their first since the band brought out the St Cecilia EP in 2015, sees Foo Fighters operating at their heaviest: a clean, melodic first verse with a simple drum beat gives way distorted gargantuan riffs that Kirk Hammet would be proud of, machine gun drum fills, and screams down the microphone in addition to the archetypal Dave Grohl chorus vocal
Of course being Foo Fighters they are as naturally adept at melodic soft rock as they are being at the most monstrous heavy band, so in between huge instrumental wig-outs that are bound to cause sheer bedlam in the moshpit this coming Glastonbury, there are vocal hooks in the soaring choruses that will draw in people of any musical persuasion for the sheer genius of being able to get that balance between rad rockers and pop melody so perfectly right.
As for the Grohl-directed video, the band continuing their skill of making full-blown cinematic masterpieces, cramming a full narrative into six minutes and the band playing the lead characters themselves.
It shows a care home as you’ve never seen before, and in impressive Hollywood costume to make them look genuinely old, Foo Fighters, led by a Gandalf-like Grohl, mix live performance with crowd chaos.
All hell breaks loose when the central character decides to learn to fly by jumping off a ledge into a group of sedated care home people and bringing out their wild, uninhibited side in the process. The Foos' fondness for theatrical element of rock is capped off by a synchornised dance at the end that will make the introverted indie side of you wonder what the hell but the fun-loving mosher throw them a high-five. It's god to have them back, especially on this form.
