Foo Fighters Have a New Sound

 

While excited due to the fact I am a avid Foo Fighters fan, I was a little sceptical due to the fact I was not the biggest fan of In Your Honour a few years ago. But I think that album was the beginning of the new Foo Fighters sound, and now in their follow up album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace they have cemented what they were looking for.

Part rock, part acoustic, and even managing to sound a lot like the Ben Folds Five on the track “Statues”, featuring a piano driven melody that carries intricate lead guitar and well rounded drums.

The album hits out hard with first single “The Pretender” which has classic Foo Fighters written all over it. Just as you’ve been banging your head to this tune it turns it right down to a acoustic song “Let It Die”, which has a giant build up and starts rocking out right at the end.

While this album consists a whole lot of acoustic tracks, it manages to sound like rock, much unlike a failed attempt with In your Honour disc 2. On first listen, many will be tempted to not listen to it again, but I implore that you give it a few listens, because while I enjoyed it first time round, by the third listen I was totally hooked to the new sound of one of the greatest rock acts of our generation.

Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is out now.

Fav Tracks: The Pretender, Let it Die, Stranger Things Have Happened, Statues

7/10