Foo Fighters hint that they may only make concept albums in the future

Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins have been discussing their future albums, hinting that those future records may be end up being concept albums.

Speaking to NME about the group’s future plans, Grohl lay out his vision for the group in relation to the approach taken with their recent release ‘Sonic Highways’.

“I do have this idea, and I’ve had it for a long time, maybe about a year,” the frontman told the publication. “It’s not set in stone. It’s definitely about challenging the artist with the environment. It’s a good idea, but we’ll see what happens.”

Hawkins then spoke about how their new release may need to “have some sort of concept around it,” because “it’s not enough to just make a fucking record any more.” He spoke at length during the interview, going on to say:

“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.”

“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’.”

“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.”