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I think it's difficult for Dave Groh and his associates to always invent something new, original and distinctive for the release of their new album.
An almost tragic paradox in their destiny: to be the last bastion of chart-topping rock or a perfect sound machine of nostalgia. In “Your Favorite Toy”, the Foo Fighters try the card of domestic autarchy, barricading themselves within the walls of the house with Oliver Roman and Mark “Spike” Stent to chisel a work that would like to smell like a garage but which risks smelling like a well-dusted living room.
If the previous “But Here We Are” exuded a cry of pain given by the mourning for Taylor Hawkins and for Grohl's mother, this new chapter aspires to a “return to the origins” that smacks of more of a conservative restoration devoid of real urgency.
The sound grammar is the standard one: biting riffs, jolting syncopations, saturated harmonies that support Grohl's register and some punk-rock incursions that act as a temporary invigorator.
Lyrically, Grohl undresses with the maturity of someone who no longer has to prove anything, processing insecurity and finitude with an almost disarming sincerity; yet, it is precisely this contrast between the specific weight of the words and the evanescence of the form that creates a short circuit.
The record slips away in thirty-six minutes of impeccable monotony, guided by an autopilot that prefers the smoothness of craft to the roughness of genius. It lacks that primordial bite, that dirt necessary to make self-quotation credible. We are faced with an honest artefact, a transitional work interwoven with generic rock elements that will certainly find an ennoblement in the live arena, but which on track remain prisoners of a formal perfection that is never unpleasant and, precisely for this reason, dangerously forgettable.
“Your Favorite Toy” is not a misstep, but a prolonged stay in a comfort zone where inspiration has been replaced by an excellent work ethic.
Perhaps we always expect something more from sacred monsters like them. But in the end that's okay too!
SCORE: 7.00
THE VOTES OF OTHERS
Mojo – Rating 8.00
Kerrang! – Rating 8.00
Rolling Stone (USA) – Rating 8.00
The Independent (UK) – Rating 8.00
Consequence – Rating 7.50
TO LISTEN NOW
Your Favorite Toy – If You Only Knew – Unconditional
TO BE SKIPPED IMMEDIATELY
36 minutes are listenable. Straight, fast.
- Caught In The Echo
- Of All People
- Window
- Your Favorite Toy
- If You Only Knew
- Spit Shine
- Unconditional
- Child Actor
- Amen, Caveman
- Asking For A Friend
WEB & SOCIAL:
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