Album Review: Foo Fighters' Wasting Light

By: Clay

A lot has been said about the Foos' new album being their best since 97's The Colour and the Shape. That's a lie. It's their best ever. Now, I could be like most reviewers and string together a bunch of rarely used adjectives and verbs to describe the intensity and top-notch songwriting for Wasting Light, but I won't. I don't have a dictionary at hand.

Wasting Light starts off with the track "Bridge Burning." It has that similar Foo sound. Basically what you would expect from Dave Grohl and company. "Rope" starts off a bit confusing if you are trying to distinguish all three guitar parts. Its intro is somewhat related to Led Zep's "Achillies Last Stand" or maybe the entire Presence album itself. "White Limo" is the hardest song to decipher Dave's lyrics, until the chorus anyway. However, it's easily the best song to crank up and roll the windows down to.

Every song on the album could be a single (also know as Nickleback-ing) and there isn't anything wrong with that. Wasting Light is one of the rare albums I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping tracks. What's great about that is it makes it easier to get lost in the music instead constantly waiting for one song to end so you can skip ahead a few to get to the next enjoyable one. I hate that. It's annoying. Thankfully, Wasting Light is a complete album in every way an album should be.

Yeah, some of the songs are interchangeable with each other. But I'm not looking for the Foo Fighters to try and reach for something by making an experimental record. They don't need to. They found their sound with their first album and have kept it since. That's why their music holds up over time.