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10.0
134078
10.0 |
Kerrang!
There’s no way around the losses. But there are chords to be strung together and memories to be preserved. Out of the ‘nothing at all’ he contended with, something finally emerged. Each precious new song, an act of survival
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10.0
134079
10.0 |
NME
Following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins and the frontman's mother, their eleventh album is a suitably pensive toast to rock’s restorative powers
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10.0
134135
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
This is without doubt their best since 2011's Wasting Light, and we should cherish the fact it was made at all
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10.0
134139
10.0 |
XS Noize
This is a love letter to two pillars of the band’s life. Two larger-than-life figures whose memory has inspired this powerful album. It’s packed to the brim with emotion. It will prove heart-breakingly relatable to anyone who’s ever suffered this kind of loss
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10.0
134182
10.0 |
Albumism
t’s an album that deserves to be given its moment in the sun. And it will have you reaching for that play button time and time again
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9.0
134116
9.0 |
All Music
But Here We Are keeps its focus on human connection, a distinction that separates it from other Foo Fighters albums
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9.0
134082
9.0 |
Gigwise
But Here We Are will come to be the most treasured Foo Fighters album of all
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9.0
134077
9.0 |
Clash
With its heady hooks and exuberant riffs, ‘But Here We Are’ is ambitious, poignant, and vivid in equal measure
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8.5
134637
8.5 |
Under The Radar
The band that started as a vanity project for a musician coming out of a malaise has blossomed into a multi-faceted and versatile band. Sometimes beautiful things can grow in the most inhospitable terrain
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8.0
134098
8.0 |
The Independent
Frontman Dave Grohl sounds startlingly fragile on certain tracks, as though still numb with the shock of drummer Taylor Hawkins’s death
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8.0
134080
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
They're a rock band that, even when the going gets tough, know that there's a job to do and there's no better way to deal with life than throwing together some ringing chords and belting the dark clouds away
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7.4
134081
7.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
While it’s been a long road for Foo Fighters to get to this point, and this album doesn’t quite match up to their most distant triumphs, these aging rockers have demonstrated here that some fire in the belly remains
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7.3
134157
7.3 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s a monument to those the band have lost, and by extension the listener too, but also a dedication to those left behind who have to adapt and recover through the worst kind of pain, documenting the entire journey
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7.0
134134
7.0 |
Pitchfork
Dave Grohl gives himself over to arena-sized grief, reckoning, and resolve on the band’s most propulsive and purposeful music of the last two decades
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6.0
134177
6.0 |
The Observer
Dave Grohl’s affecting lyrics are the main draw on his band’s first album since drummer Taylor Hawkins’s death
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6.0
134114
6.0 |
The FT
The 11th studio album by Dave Grohl’s band follows the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins and the frontman’s mother
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6.0
134097
6.0 |
The Irish Times
The shadows of drummer Taylor Hawkins and Grohl’s mother, Victoria, loom large, but this is still a loudly life-affirming collection
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