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Review: Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy

Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy
Adam Grundy

The 12th studio album from Alt Rock legends Foo Fighters, called Your Favorite Toy, is a ten-track effort that was produced by the band and Oliver Roman. This marks the first time Foo Fighters have gone outside of longtime producer/collaborator Greg Kurstin since 2014’s Sonic Highways, and in retrospect that was a bit of a risk on Dave Grohl and his bandmates’ part. Your Favorite Toy sounds like a big rock record, was recorded in Grohl’s home studio in Los Angeles, and yet when you wrap your ears around the LP you can’t help but feel like it’s not up to the same quality of the band’s most recent output. It’s the first Foo Fighters record to have Ilan Rubin (Paramore, NIN, Angels & Airwaves) behind the kit, and he does a commendable (if not the near-impossible) job of filling in for the late Taylor Hawkins. Some of the singles, like “Caught in the Echo” and lead single of “Asking For a Friend”, feel like a blend between what Foo Fighters have done on key albums like Wasting Light and One By One, while the other material that surrounds these key songs could have used a little more fine-tuning.

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Dave Grohl Chats With the Guardian

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Jason Tate

Dave Grohl talked with The Guardian:

He’s more forthcoming about the brilliant hardcore punk rager Of All People, which begins: “Of all people, you survived / When no one else could stay alive / You know you should be dead / But you’re alive instead.” He wrote it “after bumping into a drug dealer from the 90s that was getting everyone fucked up on heroin. I hadn’t seen them in 30 years, and they’re alive, healthy and sober. I was so happy that this person survived, while at the same time, I was devastated, because of all of the people I know that we’ve lost to exactly that drug” – Cobain was a heroin user. “I was so fucking angry, but at the same time so grateful to see them alive and well. Again, a conversation within myself, feeling so conflicted and divided. When I read the lyrics back, I mentioned them to my therapist: is this survivor’s guilt?”

Dave Grohl Talks with Mojo

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Jason Tate

Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters talked with Mojo in a new interview:

“There was no plan to make an album,” Grohl tells MOJO’s David Fricke. However, he reports that after a year of writing and listening back to the “40 or 50 instrumentals” he had amassed, he found one stretch of eight recordings that were “punchy, fast, energetic” which felt like the seeds of a new Foos’ album. “I said, ‘That’s what we need…’” recalls Grohl.