Medicine at Midnight is the tenth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters.

It is the final Foo Fighters studio album to feature drummer Taylor Hawkins before his death the following year.

After releasing their ninth studio album, Concrete and Gold, in 2017, and touring extensively behind it through much of 2018, the Foo Fighters announced they would be taking a break in October 2018, with frontman Dave Grohl stating that although they needed a rest, he already had some initial ideas for the band's next album.

[1] The break would last for less than a year, as by August 2019, drummer Taylor Hawkins reported that Grohl had already been demoing material by himself, and that the rest of the members planned to start contributing shortly thereafter.

[3] The following month, Grohl described the band as being "right in the middle" of the recording process, and that the album was sounding "fucking weird".

[12] Grohl likened the album's sound to David Bowie's Let's Dance album, with him explaining that it's "not like a EDM, disco, [or] modern dance record" but rather "this really up, fun record" that is "filled with anthemic, huge, sing-along rock songs.

"[16] Grohl stated that the album's overall style was inspired by the Foo Fighters' "love of rock bands that make these upbeat, up-tempo, almost danceable records".

[25] Treading up to the performance, they started teasing new music snippets of a song on their social media platforms.

[32] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised Medicine at Midnight as "a speedy, hooky, and efficient record, every bit the party album Grohl promised.

[33] Alexandra Pollard of The Independent also found the music lacking in innovation, calling it "a perfectly perfunctory addition to a canon of robust rock'n'roll".

She felt that the album would satisfy the band's longtime fans and make welcome addition to their concert setlists.

[34] More negatively, Pitchfork's Jeremy D. Larson criticized Medicine at Midnight as "another album of inconsequential music", further noting that it "adds very little to [the band's] extensive catalog of interchangeable power pop and hard-rock sing-alongs".