Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicThe Foo Fighters’ latest, “Medicine at Midnight,” is not a product of the pandemic.
Although the band was holed up in a house recording it — a rented property in the hills above the San Fernando Valley — COVID didn’t play a role since the album was completed ahead of the March 2020 lockdown.
And while fans had to wait extra-long for its delayed release (the last Foo Fighters album, “Concrete and Gold,” came out in 2017), they got in return the shortest full-length in the band’s catalog, clocking in at 36 minutes.
One would think that having the benefit of time might prompt another go at music making — in order to address the challenging, restrictive and, for many, lonely times.
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