Dave Grohl has revealed details of the new Foo Fighters album, the band's sixth of their career.
In a new interview with Billboard, the rock veteran says he dreams of mixing 'Steely Dan with No Means No' and "if anybody is going to do it, I'd love to be that guy."
Running over 12 tracks, the follow-up to the two-disc set "In Your Honor" is tentatively titled "Chaos, Silence, Patience and Grace," and is due September 25th.
"There's four-piece rock band sh*t, but then there are songs where the middle sections turn into this mass orchestrated swarm and ridiculous time signatures," Grohl tells Billboard of the new material, of which song titles include "The Pretender" (a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song, with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it"), "Cheer Up Boys, Your Makeup Is Running" ("will make festival grounds stomp really hard") and even an ode to the two miners who were trapped underground in Tasmania last for two weeks - and requested a music player full of Foo Fighters tracks while they awaited rescue.
"This song is almost banjo-picking style with hammer-ons and pull-offs," Grohl says. "I thought I'd write something for him. I came up with this little instrumental thing. After the show, we went and got f*ckin' wasted in the hotel bar and I was like, 'Dude, I promise I'm going to put this on the record'."
