Wasting Light

The third anniversary of the Foo Fighters' seventh studio album is coming up on April 12. The album was released along with a documentary entitled, Back and Forth showcases the history of the band and the making of the record.

The documentary shows how the album was recorded uses tape, instead of digital. In other words, when recording to tape, there is no room for mistakes. The producer can not put an okay guitar track into Pro Tools to make the guitar sound perfect. Mistakes are what makes an album great and unique when recording to tape.

The album starts off with "Bridge Burning". A fun track which starts off "introducing" every instrument. First comes Dave Grohl's rhythm guitar, then Nate Mendel's bass, Chris Shiflett's lead guitar, Taylor Hawkins' drums, and then Pat Smear's rhythm guitar. This sounds like a lot of musicians and instrumentation, and it is. One of the final tracks on the album, "I Should Have Known", is a slow song, which includes a string section. Wasting Light has a lot more instruments than the band's previous six efforts.

The album is still being sold online and at local record stores.