Its hard to be critical of a band that has become everyones favourite stadium rockers, but their latest album, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, for me falls well short of expectations.
The opening track, The Pretender, is the staple Foo Fighters fare, a heavy guitar driven rock track that opens the aural senses in anticipation of something great about to happen. But frankly that is the stand out track on the album, it goes steadily down hill from there, culminating in the truly awful finale, Home, a soft piano led ballad that should have been left on the studio floor.
The album appears to be a compilation of outtakes and tracks that never made it on to the excellent double CD In your honour. To their credit the Foo Fighters are pushing the boundaries and attempting new ideas, but the songwriting is more often than not mediocre and retrospective. Dave Grohl has mentioned Steely Dan as being a big influence on this album, but its hard to hear exactly where.
The band seem to be in a state of confusion, not sure where they want to be, harking back to the seventies for inspiration in the the 21st century is most certainly not where i would like them to be.
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