Foo Fighters Reveal New Track "The Sky Is A Neighborhood"
Described by Grohl as "the biggest thing sonically that we’ve ever done,” The Sky Is A Neighborhood, which impacts September 8th, is also the piece de resistance that effectively completed Foo Fighters’ forthcoming ninth album, Concrete and Gold set to arrive on September 15th on Columbia Records.
Grohl recalls,
Grohl recalls,
One night I was lying out looking up at stars. Just imagining all of these stars as places that have life on them as well, and I decided that the sky is a neighborhood, that we need to keep our shit together in order to survive in this universe full of life. But I had no music yet. I just had the title. So everyday I would walk around, kind of humming this thing in my head.
The melody of the song came to Grohl without even touching a guitar, so it follows that The Sky Is A Neighborhood would come just as naturally to the band: the song was recorded in a single afternoon by Grohl and fellow Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee.
The music video was directed by Grohl with director of photography Brandon Trost and it is a kaleidoscopic sci-fi mini-epic as massive as the slow burning rock anthem that gave it life. Hypnotic swirls of colour of extraterrestrial origin, glowing eyes, levitating children and more combine to create an otherworldly cinematic palette equal parts beautiful and creepy—the result being arguably the most striking video in the Foo Fighters’ multiple award-winning canon. Watch it below!