This cover image released by RCA shows 'Medicine at Midnight' by Foo Fighters. (RCA via AP)
Published February 12. 2021 12:16PM
By MARK KENNEDY, Associated Press
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Foo Fighters, “Medicine at Midnight” (Roswell/RCA)
“Medicine at Midnight” is what happens when the Foo Fighters embrace grooves instead of riffs. Who asked for that? No one, really. But we should have.
The nine-track album clocks in at a swift 36 minutes and it's the band's coolest in years, throwing out sounds they've rarely shown before — David Bowie, hair metal and glam rock. The band sounds like it's having fun.
Adele and Kelly Clarkson producer Greg Kurstin — who also helmed the band's 2017 album “Concrete and Gold" — has turned the often dour Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl into a party songwriter with an album that sometimes veers toward parody but never crosses the line.