{"id":621657,"date":"2026-04-22T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:10:09","slug":"foo-fighters-your-favorite-toy-album-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621657\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters ‘Your Favorite Toy’ Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe last Foo Fighters<\/a> album, 2023\u2019s But Here We Are<\/a>, was a profound act of public grieving, the band\u2019s first music since the tragic death of beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins<\/a> only a year earlier. \u201cSomeone said I\u2019ll never see your face again\/Part of me just can\u2019t believe it\u2019s true,\u201d Dave Grohl<\/a> sang on the LP\u2019s determined anthem \u201cUnder You.\u201d For a band whose three-decade run has always been marked by how uncannily well-adjusted they seem, seeing them power through such a major loss in real time made for what was arguably the most emotionally intense listen in their discography. That is, until now. The band\u2019s 12th album, Your Favorite Toy, is the next chapter in that story of fighting through grief and looking forward. Yet where its predecessor often had a reflective tone, their latest is about high-energy garage-rock catharsis, getting in a room and blasting away and letting the noise be your guide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDo I? Do I? Do I?\u201d Grohl repeats at the start of album-opener \u201cCaught in the Echo,\u201d his voice distorted in a vengeful blur. He\u2019s asking a question, but it feels like a command, indecision as an honest call to arms. The song bangs: The band\u2019s three guitarists lock into a punk-torpedo riff that could\u2019ve come from a Fugazi record, driven forward by new drummer Ilan Rubin. The song builds tension until Grohl\u2019s drill-sergeant \u201cDo I?\u201ds resolve in a more direct question: \u201cWho can save us now?\u201d That\u2019s something\u00a0he\u2019ll puzzle through on many songs here. \u201cI\u2019m a puddle on the ground,\u201d he admits on the ominously chugging\u00a0 \u201cWindow,\u201d before the guitars let in some sun and he\u2019s brightened by seeing the face of someone he loves. On \u201cYour Favorite Toy,\u201d Grohl howls against shallow distractions through a glam-grunge maelstrom, offering a bit of cautionary rock-star wisdom: \u201cTry not to choke on the glitter,\u201d a passing line with deep resonance in his story. Yet when he sings \u201cAin\u2019t that a pity\/Ain\u2019t that a shame,\u201d on the Sabbath-worthy haymaker\u00a0\u201cIf You Only Knew,\u201d he does so mockingly, as if the idea of getting slowed down by the past isn\u2019t an option, at least not for him.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThat doesn\u2019t mean the ghosts here aren\u2019t scary. The album\u2019s most poignant song is \u201cOf All People,\u201d in which Grohl runs into a drug dealer who used to sell to the rock & roll elite way back in the day. The song\u2019s Eighties L.A.-punk riff is poignant, evoking that scene\u2019s less-than-zero ethos, and his sense of horror at seeing this person still stalking the streets hits hard. \u201cYou know you should be dead\/But you\u2019re alive instead,\u201d he sings. The song engages with a universal moral riddle: Why don\u2019t bad things happen to bad people when the good ones so often leave us way before their time?\u00a0It\u2019s pretty deep stuff for a two-and-half-minute power-pop ripper.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe response to that apparently inescapable problem comes in a song like \u201cSpit Shine,\u201d a burst of seething guitars and dervish drum pummel where Grohl leaps out of the blur to remind us,\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t forget, we\u2019re lucky if we get out alive.\u201d Your Favorite Toy can be slashing and scabrous; sometimes it\u2019s downright bleak (as on the moody assessment of fame \u201cChild Actor\u201d or the pessimistic, politically-tinged \u201cAmen, Caveman\u201d). But at 10 fast, extremely catchy songs, it flies by and demands repeat immersion. Songs here that start off surprisingly bracing resolve into big, sleek choruses, the work of firm believers in the power of heroic, high-protein mainstream alt-rock as a salve against encroaching darkness. The album ends with its emotional centerpiece, \u201cAsking for a Friend,\u201d a statement of purpose that starts out at power-ballad speed and ends up racing to the hopeful horizon. \u201cSearching for something to pray\/Words I can use\/To lay your worry down,\u201d Grohl sings. He\u2019s found those words right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last Foo Fighters album, 2023\u2019s But Here We Are, was a profound act of public grieving, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,27131,75,26809,341,37671],"class_list":{"0":"post-621657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dave-grohl","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-foo-fighters","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-taylor-hawkins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}