By Horace Assar, Demisha Simmons-Price, Arjot Pabla, and Princess Ganutan, Courier Staff Writers
“Concrete and Gold”, the ninth album of the Foo Fighters is filled with thick sounding guitars and throat shredding screams.
Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters founder, never tried something tricky with the albums. Listening to the Foo Fighters is like listening to songs in a TV show. They have produced little in the way of artistic development.
With Taylor Hawkins powerful performance on the drums and Dave Grohl’s voice and guitar, the Foo Fighters earned Pitchfork’s “World’s Most Okay Rock Band” with several hit albums like “Foo Fighters”, “The Color and the Shape”, and “Sonic Highways”. These ones are boring albums but good ones as well. It is impossible to dislike the Foo Fighters but out of the question to love them.
The Foo Fighters with Greg Kurstin as well, a musician known for Adele’s “Hello” and the art pop duo ‘Bird and Bee’. Why is it rock bands want to stick to their roots but still create music with producers who produce pop sounds like the Queens of the Stone Age?
“Concrete and Gold” falls in the progressive rock and hard rock genre with 48 minutes of music. The album starts with the song “T-shirt” which is an acoustic opening with a feeling of absolute nothingness. “Run” is a meaty heavy metal tune and “Make it right” a stoner rock tune.
Like many other albums, there are good songs just as there are bad.