Foo Fighters' New Albums May Only Be Conceptual, Taylor Hawkins Says

If you were a fan of Foo Fighters' new album Sonic Highways, then the next few projects from the "Something From Nothing" rockers may be right up your alley. According to the Foos' drummer Taylor Hawkins, the band's future albums may only revolve around a concept.

In a new interview with NME, Hawkins said that "it's not enough to just make a f*cking record anymore" and that to combat the changing music industry landscape, future Foo Fighters albums will all surround a central concept or theme, or at least that's what Dave Grohl wants to do.

"It used to be a simple process of writing a batch of songs, recording them, and putting them out. You'd make an album, make three videos. If they were good, MTV would play them, and you'd sell some records. Now, you need to do something else with it," Hawkins said.

The new albums won't all have to follow the same roadmap as Sonic Highways, which found the Foo Fighters in eight cities across the United States and writing new music inspired by the musical history of each town. It can be as simple as a recording process. But, regardless, always expect some sort of angle from the Foos.

"Dave wants the albums to have some other kind of theme or experience linked to them. He wants every record we make from now on to have some sort of concept around it, whether it's something as large as Sonic Highways or as simple as, 'Hey, let's record Wasting Light to tape in my garage,'" Hawkins said.

At its very core, Hawkins insists that Foo Fighters is still Grohl's band. So even if he's not necessarily feeling whatever direction the band is going is, he can still head over to his own projects for his own outlet.

"It's Dave's vision. It all started with him and a demo tape, and he's always known what the best way forward for Foo Fighters is. I'm not gonna come in and be like, 'Hey, let's write a rock opera,' because I can go and make those fun little records on my own. These are Dave's fun little records and we're his band, we help him get it done. Even if me and [bassist] Nate [Mendel] go have a burger afterwards and say, ''Hmm, I don't know about this,' we've still got to have faith and ride it out"

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