NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ RCA Records) -
Foo Fighters sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience &
Grace stormed the worldwide charts this morning, debuting at No 3 on the U.S. album chart, scoring No 1 spots in the UK, Japan, Canada (a career first), Australia, New Zealand and Belgium, and hitting career-high numbers in Germany (No 3), Switzerland (No 2), Austria (No 4), France, Italy and the Netherlands. The album was certified platinum upon charting in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Already hailed as "perfect ... stellar" (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY), "Irresistible" (NEW YORK) and "an anthology of strong new songs by a great bunch of bands, all calling themselves Foo Fighters" (ROLLING STONE), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the most diverse and accomplished record of the band's twelve-year career. The record reunites the band with producer Gil Norton, with whom they last worked on 1997's double-platinum The Colour & The Shape, and features complex and ambitious song structures that reconcile the extremes of the FF signature sound that were distilled into two discs, one hard rocking and one softer acoustic-flavored, on their last studio effort, the platinum-plus double-disc In Your Honor.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace has been preceded by the smash single (and still No 1 at rock radio), "The Pretender," which instantly became the most added alternative track of 2007 and experienced the biggest combined add week at the active, alternative and mainstream rock formats for the year to date. The album's numerous other highlights include next single and early live favorite "Long Road To Ruin," "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)" which PEOPLE called a "feel-good, fist-pumping anthem," the classic-rock chorus of "Summer's End," and piano ballad finale "Home."
Foo Fighters are currently playing a short run of U.S. dates followed by their fifth appearance on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE on October 13th, after which they head back overseas for a tour culminating in ten sold-out UK arena dates. A full U.S. arena tour is planned for early 2008.
