I must admit, this is one of the few albums I had been anticipating all year long; and all Dave Grohl's side project with Queens of the Stone Age did was whet my appetite even further. Is the new Foo Fighters album worth the wait? Yes and no. The new Foo album is filled with some of the best hard rocking songs of their career. The first single, "All My Life" definitely kicks some rockin' ass. Other tracks such as "Low and Have It All" have QOTSA influence bulldozing out of the amplifiers. After the first four tracks however, the album stumbles in a very disappointing fashion. "Disenchanted Lullaby" has clumsy vocals all around, and I became extremely tired of listening to the should-have-been-obvious B side "Tired of You." The album's closer, "Come Back" is a torturous eight minutes long, and could have been cut to four easily. Do I think this album sucked? Absolutely not. But it is definitely the least best of the newly added Foo catalog.
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