Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Rating - 9.5/10
Wasting Light, the latest offering from the Foo Fighters, is quite simply an incredible album. I know, that's not normally how a review would begin, but it really is. Recorded at Dave Grohl's home in Virginia, the band chose to move away from normal studio techniques and tools such as Pro-Tools and digitalisation (if in doubt, see Glee!) and instead recorded the album on good old fashioned tape. The sound this has produced is quite simply astonishing. Maybe it's the tape, maybe it's Butch Vig producing the album, maybe the Foo's have just finally hit their peak, but this album will go down in history as being a memorable one.
Rough, raw and almost edgy, at times the listener can struggle to believe that this is the same band who released the likes of 'Learn to Fly' or 'Generator'. These songs have been replaced with songs such as 'White Limo' and 'Rope', both of which truly capture the live essence of Mr Grohl's voice as well as the style in which the band plays.
What really struck me though was the song 'I Should Have Known' which features Krist Novoselic on the bass and the accordion. This song, with Vig producing sounds like Nirvana but with more pain, more hurt and more despair. This song is the song which Dave Grohl has been building up to writing, one which expresses the pain of losing Kurt, the band falling apart, the revolving door of guitarists the Foo's had at the beginning, it is pure emotion in a musical form.
From start to finish this album is astonishing. Rough yet amazingly put together, it's like the band down the road have suddenly recieved tutoring Bill and Ted style and become rock gods. This album will not disappoint you, it won't leave you questioning why you bought it, it will make you question why they never recorded an album like this before and what on earth they are going to do next to follow it.
Wasting Light, the latest offering from the Foo Fighters, is quite simply an incredible album. I know, that's not normally how a review would begin, but it really is. Recorded at Dave Grohl's home in Virginia, the band chose to move away from normal studio techniques and tools such as Pro-Tools and digitalisation (if in doubt, see Glee!) and instead recorded the album on good old fashioned tape. The sound this has produced is quite simply astonishing. Maybe it's the tape, maybe it's Butch Vig producing the album, maybe the Foo's have just finally hit their peak, but this album will go down in history as being a memorable one.
Rough, raw and almost edgy, at times the listener can struggle to believe that this is the same band who released the likes of 'Learn to Fly' or 'Generator'. These songs have been replaced with songs such as 'White Limo' and 'Rope', both of which truly capture the live essence of Mr Grohl's voice as well as the style in which the band plays.
What really struck me though was the song 'I Should Have Known' which features Krist Novoselic on the bass and the accordion. This song, with Vig producing sounds like Nirvana but with more pain, more hurt and more despair. This song is the song which Dave Grohl has been building up to writing, one which expresses the pain of losing Kurt, the band falling apart, the revolving door of guitarists the Foo's had at the beginning, it is pure emotion in a musical form.
From start to finish this album is astonishing. Rough yet amazingly put together, it's like the band down the road have suddenly recieved tutoring Bill and Ted style and become rock gods. This album will not disappoint you, it won't leave you questioning why you bought it, it will make you question why they never recorded an album like this before and what on earth they are going to do next to follow it.