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Sep 15, 2017On their ninth album, Concrete And Gold, Foo Fighters go all in on that classic rock love, resulting in a batch of songs that uses the past to give the band new life.
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MagnetNov 21, 2017The Foo sextet has made its hardest, yet most curvaceous and warm-blooded record to date. [No. 148, p.54]
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Sep 18, 2017Concrete and Gold is easily the finest album of the Foo Fighters’ 20-plus year recording career, an artistic breakthrough that hopefully marks the start of an exciting new era in the band’s continued musical odyssey.
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Sep 14, 2017A record that features some of the band’s most vital and impressive tracks in years.
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Kerrang!Sep 11, 2017If you're expecting an album full of immediate anthems like Monkey Wrench and All My Life, dig out their Greatest Hits. Otherwise, bask in this hour of masterful '70s-flavoured jams. [9 Sep 2017, p.50]
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Sep 5, 2017The finished product is actually more like AC/DC having a crack at making their White Album, in that it’s as varied, expansive and crammed with drug-crusted invention as a band embedded in blues and hard rock can get. For a record relatively light on pop-rock stadium slayers, it’s also easily the Foos’ most elemental album yet.
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Sep 5, 2017In conception and execution, Concrete And Gold stands as Foo Fighters' most beguiling record to date. [Oct 2017, p.88]
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Sep 21, 2017Grohl and company could have continued to make mundane arena rock. That they’ve managed to hunker down and create a collection that proves that they aren’t ready crawl fade away just yet.
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UncutSep 22, 2017It packs plenty of the expected, full-throttle thrills, but there's more interesting, atypical action on winding, low-slung jam "The Sky Is A Neighborhood" and the six-minutes-plus of "Sunday Rain." [Nov 2017, p.26]
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Sep 20, 2017What really sets Concrete and Gold aside from the rest is that you don’t feel this one has been written with stadiums specifically in mind.
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Sep 19, 2017Grohl and his pals never set out to write the gospel on modern rock--they only sought to preach it, hammering it into our heads by way of biting hooks and anthemic melodies. There’s more than enough red meat to go around on Concrete and Gold, the band’s ninth album.
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Sep 15, 2017Musically and emotionally, Concrete and Gold is their most balanced record yet.
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Sep 14, 2017Foo Fighters show that they're in love with light and shade, fury and quiet, every twist and turn they can make with their instruments, and even if Concrete And Gold isn't about much more than that, it's refreshing to hear the Foos embrace to the logical flashing conclusion of Grohl's allegiance to real rock values.
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Sep 14, 2017After remaining stagnant for so long, Concrete and Gold is a mini breakthrough for the Foo Fighters. Progress, at last.
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Sep 13, 2017Mr. Grohl and Foo Fighters wear their influences so openly--Pink Floyd in “Concrete and Gold,” Led Zeppelin in “Make It Right,” the Beatles all over the album--that they still come across as earnest, proficient journeymen, disciples rather than trailblazers.
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Sep 12, 2017Grohl’s music has cried out for, well, coloring and shaping for so long that it matters more that he’s finally sculpted an objet d’art, rather than Another Foo Fighters album.
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Sep 22, 2017Once it settles the textures of a solid, workmanlike rock and roll album reveal themselves.
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Sep 18, 2017There are boring Foo Fighters albums and pretty good ones; C&G is a pretty good one, and in two years there will probably be another.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 94 out of 123
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Mixed: 22 out of 123
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Negative: 7 out of 123
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