Foo Fighters, a real treasure hunt for the new single
“Caught in the echo” is the title of the latest single released today, March 20, by Foo Fighters as the third preview of the new album “Your favorite toy“, out next April 24.
“Do I? Do I? Do I? Do I?”: guitar in the foreground and distorted vocals. Dave Grohl and his associates continue in this case too in the wake already traced by the previous preview, confirming the rougher and more immediate nature of the project reminiscent of the “Wasting light” period. “This is just a test/ Of a broken broadcast system/ Consider this an evaluation/ Of my hallucinations”, Grohl then shouts in the first verse: “But this is not a test/ This is a conversation/ I have another proposition/ Only under one condition”. “Caught in the echo” arrives as the third single taken from the next and twelfth album after the song released last October, “Asking for a friend” and the title track, shared last month.
For the new single, Foo Fighters have chosen to anticipate the release with an out of the ordinary promotion turning the ad into a sort of treasure hunt. Dave Grohl has in fact decided to burn the song “Caught in the echo” on a limited series of CDs physical, made even more personal by covers handmade together with his daughter Harper. The result is deliberately imperfect, with a DIY aesthetic that recalls a more direct and artisanal way of making music and distributing it.
Once ready, the records were scattered around the city of Los Angelesespecially in the Encino neighborhood, by Grohl himself, between record shops, supermarkets and other public spacesleaving copies in different places. Everything was documented through a series of videos shared as stories on the Foo Fighters Instagram profile, in which the locations are shown and small clues left to help and guide local fans in finding the various CDs.
The release of the new single follows a recent interview given by Dave Grohl in which he returned to talk about death of Taylor Hawkinswho passed away in March 2022. On the sidelines of a chat with Mojo, the Foo Fighters frontman declared that the death of his close friend, as well as his band’s drummer, led him to “questioning everything about life, it was really unfair. I still struggle to make sense of it”.
The new Foo Fighters album, “Your favorite toy“, comes out as a follow-up to 2023’s “But here we are” and arrives after a long series of previews that have kept fans waiting. The album will also be presented live during the tour that will see the band engaged in the United Kingdom and Europe, with a single date in Italy on July 5th in Milanor.
