Pitchfork

Dave Grohl will continue to fight the Foo Fight this September with the release of his band's sixth full-length, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. The In Your Honor follow-up will hit stores September 25 via Roswell/RCA.

Echoes finds the Foo Fighters once again working with producer Gil Norton, who last worked with the band on 1997's excellent The Colour and the Shape.

In an interview with Billboard.com, Grohl describes Echoes' sound by saying, "It has always been my dream to mix Steely Dan with No Means No," and, "There's four-piece rock band shit, but then there are songs where the middle sections turn into this mass orchestrated swarm and ridiculous time signatures."

Also according to the same report, one of the album's songs-- the Kaki King-featuring "The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners"-- has quite a ridiculous, awesome, and logistically questionable story behind it:

That song was inspired by two Tasmanian miners who were tapped underground for two weeks and, while awaiting rescue, requested an iPod with Foo Fighters music on it to help lift their spirits. Grohl was alerted of the situation by a staffer at the band's Australian record company and wrote a note to the two men.

"I was in tears, man," he recalls. "I said, 'Hey guys, it's Dave. You're in our thoughts and prayers. When you get out, there's two tickets and two cold beers waiting for you wherever you want to see the band.'"

The men were eventually brought to safety, and when one of them came to see the Foos play the Sydney Opera House, "I thought I'd write something for him," Grohl says. "I came up with this little instrumental thing. After the show, we went and got fuckin' wasted in the hotel bar and I was like, 'Dude, I promise I'm going to put this on the record.'"

The Foo Fighters will tour/scout for new buds at four August dates in the UK, and they have plans for a couple full tours afterward.

Finally, the aforementioned The Colour and the Shape gets a tenth anniversary deluxe edition reissue tomorrow (July 10), remastered and complete with six bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are "Dear Lover", "The Colour and the Shape", a cover of Killing Joke's "Requiem", a cover of Gary Numan's "Down in the Park", a cover of Vanity 6's "Drive Me Wild", and a cover of freakin' Gerry Raferty's "Baker Street"!!!!!

Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace (unsequenced):

The Pretender
Let It Die
Erase/Replace
Long Road to Ruin
Come Alive
Stranger Things Have Happened
Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)
Summers End
Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners
Statues
But, Honestly
Home

Dates:

08-18 Chelmsford, England - Virgin Festival 2007
08-19 Staffordshire, England - Virgin Festival 2007
08-21 Edinburgh, Scotland - T on the Fringe
08-22 Dublin, Ireland - Marlay Park