Foo Fighters Sonic Highways (Gatefold LP Jacket, 180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) LP Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: Roswell Records – 88843-09008-1, RCA – 88843-09008-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Infinity Cover
Country: US
Released: Nov 10, 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRACKLIST
A1 Something From Nothing
A2 The Feast And The Famine
A3 Congregation
A4 What Did I Do? / God As My Witness
B1 Outside
B2 In The Clear
B3 Subterranean
B4 I Am A River

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Roswell Records, Inc.
Copyright © – Roswell Records, Inc.
Recorded At – Electrical Audio
Recorded At – Inner Ear Studios
Recorded At – Southern Ground Studios, Nashville
Recorded At – Austin City Limits
Recorded At – Rancho De La Luna
Recorded At – Preservation Hall
Recorded At – Robert Lang Studios
Recorded At – The Magic Shop
Recorded At – Ocean Way Recording
Mixed At – Atomic Sound, New York, NY
Manufactured By – Pallas USA
Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 33130
Mastered At – Lurssen Mastering
Lacquer Cut At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Marketed By – Sony Music Entertainment
Distributed By – Sony Music Entertainment
Published By – M.J. Twelve Music
Published By – Living Under A Rock Music
Published By – I Love The Punk Rock Music
Published By – Ruthensmear Music
Art Direction, Design – Morning Breath Inc.
Bass – Nate Mendel
Cover [Illustration] – Stephan Martiniere
Drums – Taylor Hawkins
Guitar – Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear
Lacquer Cut By – BG*
Lead Vocals, Guitar – Dave Grohl
Legal – Jill Berliner, King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner
Management – Silva Artist Management
Management [Business] – Cathryn Krauel, Lee Johnson (7), VWC Management Inc.*
Mastered By – Gavin Lurssen, Reuben Cohen
Mixed By [Studio Assistance] – Dakota Bowman, John "Lou" Lousteau*
Organ – Rami Jaffee
Photography By – Andrew Stuart, Ringo*
Producer – Butch Vig
Producer, Written-By – Foo Fighters
Recorded By, Mixed By – James Brown (2)
Cover art shows all 9 other cover art variations as one image; packaged in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics and download card for entire release in digital format.

Mixed at Atomic Sound, New York, NY
Mastered at Lurssen Mastering, Los Angeles, CA

"Something From Nothing" recorded at Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, IL
"The Feast And The Famine" recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA
"Congregation" recorded at Southern Ground in Nashville, TN
"What Did I Do? / God As My Witness" recorded at KLRU-TV, Studio 6A in Austin, TX
"Outside" recorded at Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, CA
"In The Clear" recorded at Preservation Hall in New Orleans, LA
"Subterranean" recorded at Robert Lang Studio in Seattle, WA
"I Am A River" recorded at Magic Shop in New York, NY. Strings recorded at Ocean Way in Los Angeles, CA

Nobody ever would've thought the Foo Fighters were gearing up for a hiatus following the vibrant 2011 LP Wasting Light, but the group announced just that in 2012. It was a short-lived break, but during that time-off, lead Foo Dave Grohl filmed an ode to the classic Los Angeles recording studio Sound City, which in turn inspired the group's 2014 album, Sonic Highways. Constructed as an aural travelog through the great rock & roll cities of America -- a journey that was documented on an accompanying HBO mini-series of the same name -- Sonic Highways picks up the thread left dangling from Sound City: Real to Reel; it celebrates not the coiled fury of underground rock exploding into the mainstream, the way the '90s-happy Wasting Light did, but rather the classic rock that unites the U.S. from coast to coast. No matter the cameo here -- and there are plenty of guests, all consciously different from the next, all bending to the needs of their hosts -- the common denominator is the pumping amps, sky-scraping riffs, and sugary melodies that so identify the sound of arena rock at its pre-MTV peak. There are a few unexpected wrinkles, as when Ben Gibbard comes aboard to give "Subterranean" a canned electronic pulse and Tony Visconti eases the closing "I Am a River" into a nearly eight-minute epic, but the brief eight-song album just winds up sounding like nothing else but the Foo Fighters at their biggest, burliest, and loudest. They've become the self-proclaimed torch barriers for real rock, championing the music's history but also blessedly connecting the '70s mainstream and '80s underground so it's all one big nation ruled by six-strings. That the mainstream inevitably edges out the underground on Sonic Highways is perhaps inevitable -- it is the common rock language, after all -- but even if there's a lingering predictability in the paths the Foo Fighters follow on Sonic Highways, they nevertheless know how to make this familiar journey pleasurable. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Released: 11/10/2014
Format Type: LP
Genre: ALTERNATIVE
Format: Vinyl
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)