Studio Album · No. 6
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Songwriting Credits by Foo Fighters
Produced by Gil Norton · Engineered by Adrian Bushby (recording), Rich Costey (mixing), Brian Gardner (mastering)
Holds writing credit on 12 of 12 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 12 / 12 documented
Scored across the 12 tracks with documented writers, by whether Foo Fighters carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 12 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 3
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was produced by Gil Norton, with Adrian Bushby recording, Rich Costey mixing, and Brian Gardner mastering. "The Pretender" spent 18 weeks at number one on Alternative Songs, a record at the time, and reached #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's third top-40 single. The album won Best Rock Album at the 50th Grammy Awards (2008) and received a nomination for Album of the Year, Foo Fighters' first nomination in that category. It was also only the ninth album in history to produce three number-one Alternative Songs hits from a single release.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by Foo Fighters, released in September 2007 on RCA Records and produced by Gil Norton. It is a return to the sonic approach of The Colour and the Shape with Norton's production, combining the band's hard rock foundation with the more reflective acoustic material that had characterized the second disc of In Your Honor. Grohl wrote all material; 'The Pretender' opened the album as the lead single and spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, becoming one of the band's most commercially successful singles; 'Long Road to Ruin,' 'Let It Die,' and the acoustic closer 'Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners' were among the other principal tracks. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy for Best Rock Album, the band's fifth win in the category; it has been certified double platinum in the United States. The album's sonic range, from the opening urgency of 'The Pretender' to the hushed string-accompanied closer, reflects the tonal ambition that Norton's production had consistently brought to the band's studio work. The album's Grammy win for Best Rock Album represented the second consecutive Grammy in the category for the band and confirmed their commercial and critical position as the most consistently recognized mainstream rock act of the decade, a designation that depended equally on Grohl's prolific creative output and his band's ability to sustain commercial execution across successive album cycles.