Music review: Concrete and Gold by Foo Fighters
Music review: Concrete and Gold by Foo Fighters
18 January 2018
Foo Fighters' latest release confirms their position as perservers of the heavy rock genre.
With the recent release of their ninth album in 23 years, Foo Fighters continue to fulfil their role as a mainstay in American heavy rock music.
Concrete and Gold has enjoyed generally positive reviews so far and may prove to be one of their better projects over the past decade.
Regarded as disciples and preservers of this genre of music rather than pioneers or innovators, the band revolves around Dave Grohl, lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder of the band. 
Indeed, the first Foo Fighters album was produced entirely by Grohl playing every instrument. Receiving positive critical response, he then put together a competent band to promote the album on the concert circuit. Foo Fighters have been doing the same thing over and over again ever since.
Concrete and Gold delivers 11 songs on this recording in just under 50 minutes. It has typical light and shade, dappled amongst heavy guitar riffs and furious driving drum layers, with occasional vocal screams punctuating the very listenable melodic lines of Grohl’s voice.
Notable tracks include Run and The Sky Is A Neighbourhood, which were both released as promotional singles before the album launch. The video clips of these two songs are well worth viewing on YouTube.
Arguably the standout song on this album is Happy Ever After, a whimsical Beatle-esque ballad with a foot-tapping, guitar-picking beat that underscores Grohl’s reflective melody.
Grohl’s music career was established during his four years as drummer for Nirvana. His hard-hitting, driving style contributed to the success of this grunge band until Kurt Cobain’s untimely death.
Through this period Grohl continued to develop his own songwriting ideas and musical direction. It gave him experience and confidence to follow his own musical vision when Nirvana ended. The rest is history.
Other similar bands come and go, but the “Foos” are still fighting, still filling stadiums and still doing world tours to promote their recordings.
If you have avoided hard rock music until now, nothing that Foo Fighters serve up here will encourage you, but rusted-on fans will be able to catch them live during their Australian tour, which begins tonight in Perth.
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