{"id":29636,"date":"2017-08-23T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=29636"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:04:08","slug":"foo-fighters-the-sky-is-a-neighborhood-follows-run-ahead-of-ninth-album-concrete-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/foo-fighters-the-sky-is-a-neighborhood-follows-run-ahead-of-ninth-album-concrete-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters \u2018The Sky Is A Neighborhood\u2019 Follows ‘Run’ Ahead Of Ninth Album ‘Concrete And Gold’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Foo Fighters have delivered a second consecutive contender for rock anthem of 2017 in the form of ‘The Sky Is A Neighborhood’, which follows their sensational June single \u2018Run\u2019.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Described by Dave Grohl as “the biggest thing sonically that we\u2019ve ever done,\u201d ‘The Sky Is A Neighborhood’, is also the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance which effectively completes Foo Fighters\u2019 forthcoming ninth album, \u2018Concrete And Gold\u2019.<\/p>\n

Grohl recalls:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The melody of the song came to Grohl without even touching a guitar, so\u00a0it makes sense 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.<\/p>\n

Grohl continues:<\/p>\n

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“And once we were finished, I thought ‘OK now we have an album. This is it and we\u2019re done\u2019\u2026as we were mixing, I realized that we’d actually done what we set out do: to make this gigantic Foo Fighters record but with Greg Kurstin\u2019s sense of jazz and melody and arrangement, something that we\u2019d never done before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, a track with a name like, ‘The Sky Is A Neighborhood’ deserves an equally ambitious visual representation, and so, together with director of photography Brandon Trost, and with production by Therapy Studios, director Grohl, Foo Fighters – and family – have more than delivered in the song’s video.<\/p>\n

‘The Sky Is A Neighborhood’ 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 – resulting in arguably the most striking video in the Foo Fighters\u2019 multiple award-winning canon.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Foo Fighters are launching a constellation viewer, enabling every FF fan to transform to their phone into a tool for exploring the sky in their neighborhood: click here<\/a>\u00a0on your phone to configure a realistic constellation map in the viewer\u2019s 3D sphere, then let it identify the constellations in your night sky- all while tiny Foo Fighters provide the soundtrack to your explorations at the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n

‘The Sky Is A Neighborhood’ is the second song to be unveiled from ‘Concrete and Gold’, following the June 1 surprise release of their song, ‘Run’. With more than 2 million YouTube views in its first 24 hours, ‘Run’ smashed into the top 5 of the iTunes video chart and the top of the 15 iTunes singles chart – quickly amassing the highest first-day numbers of any single in the Foo Fighters\u2019 career.<\/p>\n

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