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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]

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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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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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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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]

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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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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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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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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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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The New York Times

This is not the best Foo Fighters record, but it’s the shrewdest one.

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Mojo

It's charming, understated and has to be heard in context. [Oct 2007, p.100]

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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MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)

Grohl is hookier than Nickelback, which is saying something.

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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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musicOMH.com

This is another fine album from Grohl and company.

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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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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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New Musical Express

By and large this is as consistent a record as the Foo Fighters have ever made.

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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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Spin

Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is another quality entry in a fantastically average career.

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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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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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NOW Magazine

Echoes sounds pretty business-as-usual.

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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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Blender

Throughout, the Foos are as tight as ever, even if the songs are mostly unmemorable. [Oct 2007, p.108]

Sputnikmusic

The album is just standard rock/alternative affair.

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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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PopMatters

Grohl and Company sound like Bob Seger fronting for your garden variety modern hard rock group.

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Drowned In Sound

Foo Fighters are now flabby, creaky, and worst of all past it.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 78 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Bernd K gave it a9:
A very good Album. The best Foo Fighter Album so far. It's no bad song on this Album.

Nic H. gave it a9:
Awesome album that shows the great variety of the Foo Fighters.

Adam S. gave it a7:
Hey all you 0 raters out there!! Just cause people rate it 10, you can bash them but you turn around and give it a zero? Obviously the cd is not a 10 and obviously its not a 0. I enjoyed the cd, and I thought that while the Foos were not pushing boundries, that doesn't mean its a bad album. ACDC never pushed a boundry in their lives and they're gods. Alright, they pushed a few, but they stayed in their niche. Love Let It Die, of course The Pretender will be hated because its "radio" music, whatever. All you indie people think just cause its popular now its not good anymore. When it wasn't so popular it was great!!! Of course it can't top The Colour and The Shape, I don't think any of their albums ever will it was so good.

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.

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