Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy
★★★★
ROSWELL/COLUMBIA
Amateur therapists scouring the first Foo Fighters album since Dave Grohl’s personal life became uncomfortably public may be disappointed that the chief Foo Fighter has sensibly kept the catharsis for his actual therapist. “I’ll find a better way to explain this to you,” he offers on the Neil Young-wistful Unconditional, a pensive outlier on a record otherwise built upon the modular riffage and stacked harmonies that made this band one of the world’s biggest.
Yet although swerving the sonic extremes which distinguished 2023’s But Here We Are, Grohl can still subvert his own formula: opener Caught In The Echo brilliantly synthesises Ian MacKaye with Paul McCartney, and the needling pulse of Window is superior Josh Homme-age. The wired Child Actor, meanwhile, reveals a conflicted man behind the persona: “As I chase all the roles I’ve lost, was I good enough?” Credit to him for still asking the tough questions.
Your Favorite Toy is out April 24 on Roswell/Columbia.
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Tracklisting:
Caught In The Echo
Of All People
Window
Your Favorite Toy
If You Only Knew
Spit Shine
Unconditional
Child Actor
Amen, Caveman
Asking For A Friend
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