Album Review: Foo Fighters - Concrete & Gold
"What Foo Fighters set out to achieve with 'Concrete & Gold' was to challenge themselves, and in turn, they've also challenged their listeners in the best way possible."
When you think of Foo Fighters, it's easy to just think of huge, stadium-filling rock songs.
You know, like Best Of You, The Pretender and My Hero. It's just as easy to forget that this six-piece monster of a band started out with just Dave Grohl, playing songs like Big Me, Floaty and For All The Cows by himself on his 1995 post-Nirvana project, Foo Fighters.
What Foo Fighters ninth studio album offers is a blend somewhere between the two; moments of big '70s rock sounds, balanced with softer lullaby-esque tracks.
The opening bars of album opener T-Shirt will lull you into a false sense of security. 'Oh, this is going to be a Skin & Bones type album,' you'll be thinking... and then the guitars come in and blast your brain into expecting the unexpected for the remainder of the album.
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The beginning of La Dee Da wouldn't feel out of place in something on a Nine Inch Nails album but then Dirty Water rolls around to remind you what you liked from that first, self-titled album to begin with.
What Foo Fighters set out to achieve with Concrete & Gold was to challenge themselves, and in turn, they've also challenged their listeners in the best way possible.
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