Foo Fighters
Wasting Light
This is probably the Foo Fighters’ strongest record since their 90s heyday (though I said that in 2007 about their last album, Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace, which placed a very healthy 5th that year – so who knows?). Wasting Light returns to some of what made their 90s material so great and, oddly, to me sounds, more than anything else, like the debut record that Dave Grohl made in 1995 before he’d even put the band together. The decisions to record on tape, to re-hire Pat Smear and to have Butch Vig on production duties have all contributed to the raw rock sound, but the biggest plus is simply the quality of the song-writing. No duffers at all here, unlike overweight mid-career efforts such as In Your Honour. Every track on Wasting Light fizzes along, with plenty of great riffs and huge choruses. Particular favourites of mine are the duet with Husker Du’s Bob Mould on ‘Dear Rosemary’ and the punk fury of ‘White Limo’ (though it should surely have been called ‘Watershed’ II...). An absolute giant of the genre showing that they can still mix it with the very best.
Wasting Light
This is probably the Foo Fighters’ strongest record since their 90s heyday (though I said that in 2007 about their last album, Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace, which placed a very healthy 5th that year – so who knows?). Wasting Light returns to some of what made their 90s material so great and, oddly, to me sounds, more than anything else, like the debut record that Dave Grohl made in 1995 before he’d even put the band together. The decisions to record on tape, to re-hire Pat Smear and to have Butch Vig on production duties have all contributed to the raw rock sound, but the biggest plus is simply the quality of the song-writing. No duffers at all here, unlike overweight mid-career efforts such as In Your Honour. Every track on Wasting Light fizzes along, with plenty of great riffs and huge choruses. Particular favourites of mine are the duet with Husker Du’s Bob Mould on ‘Dear Rosemary’ and the punk fury of ‘White Limo’ (though it should surely have been called ‘Watershed’ II...). An absolute giant of the genre showing that they can still mix it with the very best.
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