“Grohl and the gang work through their grief”
“It’s a bit of cruel irony that in the face of so much adversity, the band has somehow managed to helm their most creative and compelling album in over 20 years. It may be hard for the band to recognize it, but believe it or not, Foo Fighters are learning to live again.”
“A powerful set of songs from Dave Grohl and company.”
“But Here We Are, the band's first album since the loss of drummer Taylor Hawkins, depicts grief in immediate terms”
“Dave Grohl gives himself over to arena-sized grief, reckoning, and resolve on the band’s most propulsive and purposeful music of the last two decades.”
“Although released just a year after the suicide of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain, the Foo Fighters’ 1995 debut was a breezy delight that seemed tonally in stark contrast to the trauma Dave Grohl had so recently experienced. The mood surrounding But Here We Are, arriving a year after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins, couldn’t be more different. Throughout, the lyrics bear the scars of grief: ”
