{"id":621610,"date":"2026-04-21T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:10:10","slug":"foo-fighters-your-favorite-toy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621610\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters, ‘Your Favorite Toy’: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foo Fighters<\/a>‘ 2023 album,\u00a0But Here We Are<\/a>,\u00a0was\u00a0stamped with the recent deaths of band drummer Taylor Hawkins<\/a> and\u00a0Dave Grohl<\/a>‘s beloved, supportive mom.\u00a0The result was a meditative work about loss and moving on from tragedy; it wasn’t exactly closure for this rough time, but it was as close\u00a0as they would allow themselves to get.<\/p>\n

The period leading up to the Foos’ 12th album,\u00a0Your Favorite Toy, has been equally strained by personal and professional shakeups, including Grohl’s admission of infidelity (which resulted in a daughter) and the firing of Hawkins’ replacement, Josh Freese.\u00a0But these incidents seemed to have awakened another side of the band \u2014 a looser, rowdier and more volatile side.<\/p>\n

Foo Fighters have been down this path before, most notably in 2011’s Wasting Light, one of their best records.\u00a0But this time\u00a0Your Favorite Toy\u00a0is more of a reaction to the tone and music of\u00a0But Here We Are, which is also one of the group’s finest works.\u00a0And because of that, Grohl and company sound more committed to their cause; if loud,\u00a0aggressive Foo Fighters are your favorite\u00a0type of Foo Fighters, this album does the trick.<\/p>\n

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Look no further than the opening one-two punch of “Caught in the Echo” and “Of All People.” “This is just a test of a broken broadcast system,” Grohl screams at the start of the former, signaling\u00a0Your Favorite Toy’s intent. At times, the music isn’t too far removed from Grohl’s teenage hardcore band, Scream, or from groups like Bad Brains and Husker Du<\/a> that were influences early in his career.<\/p>\n

It goes on like this\u00a0for the next 35 minutes, as Grohl and Foo Fighters exorcise their latest demons. There’s a sameness to\u00a0Your Favorite Toy, but punk was rarely about straying from its scene. (“Window” and “Child Actor” come closer to the radio-endorsed alternative rock the group is best known for.) In the album’s longest song, the closing “Asking for a Friend,”\u00a0Grohl sings, “Lay your worry down,”\u00a0in a\u00a0maybe futile attempt to convince himself as much as anyone else.\u00a0It’s a near-perfect summation of Foo Fighters in 2026.<\/p>\n

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