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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
by Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 71 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.4 out of 10
based on 30 reviews
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Producer Gil Norton returns for the Foo Fighters' sixth album.

LABEL: RCA
RELEASE DATE: 25 September 2007
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Rock, Pop

What The Critics Said

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100
Entertainment Weekly
It isn't long before you realize how frickin' right it all sounds, how damn near flawless the tone of the whole set feels. [28 Sep 2007, p.104]
90
Dot Music
There's no getting away from the fact that the goofy guy who used to play drums for Nirvana just made a classic album.
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90
Filter
What remains are incredibly sharp and distorted fist-pumpers, chock full of guitars and monstrous drums, and a handful of slower numbers that fall short of matching the impact of songs like 'Everlong' and 'Learn to Fly.'
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80
Hartford Courant
Grohl often shows off his sky-high vocal range, award-winning ear for bridges and choruses and penchant for ending opuses with dark, pitch-perfect shrieks.
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80
Q Magazine
Each of these tracks makes the case for Foo Fighters' horizons successfully expanding, in the way the acoustic side of "In Your Honor" didn't. [Oct 2007, p.87]
80
Boston Globe
Dave Grohl and company have assembled a strong assortment of the band's familiar, well-built tuneage, from muscular rockers and sinuous ballads to good-natured power-pop and riff-heavy radio anthems.
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80
Trouser Press
The instrumental "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" showcases Grohl's acoustic guitar chops, while the piano-driven "Home" provides a lovely ending to an excellent album.
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80
Billboard
On their sixth album, Foo Fighters have renewed their membership in the "if it ain't broke . . ." school of songwriting. And essentially, there's nothing wrong with that.
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80
The Guardian
The Foos' sixth and most accomplished album sees the band comfortable with arena tricks such as wistful Led Zeppelin-y acoustic guitars and choruses to learn and scream.
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80
Paste Magazine
The record sounds lush and epic, with a variety of genres and sounds all peeking their heads through the band’s established heavy-melodic-rock sound. There are mellow, intimate tunes and amps-to-11 anthems alike, and plenty that split the difference.
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80
The New York Times
This is not the best Foo Fighters record, but it’s the shrewdest one.
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80
Mojo
It's charming, understated and has to be heard in context. [Oct 2007, p.100]
80
Amazon.com
Ten years later, they've regrouped with Norton for a disc that's more sophisticated and diverse, if a tad less rockin'.
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75
MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
Grohl is hookier than Nickelback, which is saying something.
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72
cokemachineglow
The remainder of Echoes is considerably more diffuse, engaging in levels of genre-hopping that might seem a little desperate were it not for the fact that most of the songs hold up.
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70
musicOMH.com
This is another fine album from Grohl and company.
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70
Hot Press
Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album is a transitional rather than definitive piece of work, but one that sees them growing older with 'patience and grace'.
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70
Rolling Stone
This is an anthology of strong new songs by a great bunch of bands, all calling themselves Foo Fighters.
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70
New Musical Express
By and large this is as consistent a record as the Foo Fighters have ever made.
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60
Uncut
On the last Foos album, "In Your Honour" rock and acoustic music were exiled to different discs. Here, a satisfactory compromise is brokered between the two: the excellent 'Summer's End' is easy on the ear, easier still on the brain, and sets him up in the radio-friendly 'Wonderwall' district one imagines is his spiritual home.
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60
Spin
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is another quality entry in a fantastically average career.
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60
Observer Music Monthly
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace sticks to what it's good at: undemanding arena rock that's just--just--leftfield enough not to jar alongside Grohl's previous incarnation.
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60
All Music Guide
The Foos can sometimes feel like a bit of a chore if they lean too heavily in one direction--as they do here, where despite the conscious blend of acoustic and electric tunes, the rockers weigh down Echoes more than they should, enough to make this seem like just another Foo Fighters album instead of the consolidation of strengths that it was intended to be.
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60
NOW Magazine
Echoes sounds pretty business-as-usual.
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58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Echoes has some characteristic Foo Fighters rockers, but even they sound quieter: Producer Gil Norton keeps the guitars, along with everything else, subdued. And without the usual standout hits (though 'Long Road To Ruin' is solid), Echoes will probably leave fans wanting.
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50
Blender
Throughout, the Foos are as tight as ever, even if the songs are mostly unmemorable. [Oct 2007, p.108]
50
Sputnikmusic
The album is just standard rock/alternative affair.
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42
Pitchfork
They're sounding less and less relatable, leaving us pining not just for the days of a little grunge trio from Seattle, but for the relentlessly catchy and charismatic Dave Grohl of the Foos' still-fantastic self-titled debut and the better half of "The Colour and the Shape."
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40
PopMatters
Grohl and Company sound like Bob Seger fronting for your garden variety modern hard rock group.
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40
Drowned In Sound
Foo Fighters are now flabby, creaky, and worst of all past it.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 72 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jack L. gave it an8:
It's irregular, but still a great rock album. "The Pretender" is energetic and exciting, "Let it Die" is dramatic and vibrating and this goes on to the sixth track. The album could end there.

Chris T. gave it a9:
Classic Foo Fighters, this album is practically flawless.

Lucas W. gave it a7:
Very good accoustic songs on this album, but the heavier songs i believe to be not as good as previous heavy foo songs, all except the pretender, Overall its a good listen! Come Alive is my favourite song.

Mark K. gave it a9:
It all sound nearly flawless making it an excellent Foo Fighters album, if not the best they've done with a few, slightly shaky tracks spoiling it. Well worth the money.

Ev K. gave it a7:
Not a bad album, but poor by the Foo's standards. I love 'stranger things have happened', its so moody.

Felix gave it a5:
Mediocre album; even worse than In Your Honor.

Mik N. gave it a10:
Simply briliant

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