Foo Fighters played in 2021 releasing “No Son of Mine”, a new song from their recently announced 10th LP, Midnight remedy.
“No Son of Mine” follows the album’s first single, “Shame Shame”, which debuted in a December episode of Saturday Night Live. In a recent interview, guitarist Chris Shiflett described this song as “definitely slightly different from everything we’ve done before” and “slightly different from anything else on the album.” He noted that the record of nine songs, which follows that of 2017 Concrete and gold, has a lot of “groove-based” material as a result of the perspective of band leader Dave Grohl. “Dave is a drummer,” he said The Brag, “so he’s always creating rhythmic twists and riffs based on rhythms he hears in his head.”
The new song seems to support your case. Although the vocal delivery of Grohl’s trademark is present and correct, the music is driven by a dominant country rock and even a rockabilly feel, with contrasting high-pitched backing vocals in the 70’s style. The lyrics seem to address hypocrisy or related confusion to the space between forgiveness and denial, since Grohl describes “undead” who have a “hand to God with a foot in the grave” in an “era of lost innocence”. The accompanying loop animation seems to illustrate a corrupt circle of life that involves an existence of distraction, with greed becoming the dominant influence.
Midnight remedy will be released on February 5 via RCA / Roswell. Grohl announced that Foo Fighters finished recording the album in March, calling it “unlike anything we’ve ever done”.
“I am very proud of it,” he said. “I’m really excited for people to hear it and I can’t wait to jump on the fucking stage to play it. […] There are choruses on this album that will sing 50,000 people, and that will bring everyone’s fucking hearts together at that moment. And that is what it is about. “
Foo Fighters – ‘No Son of Mine’