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Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl is a) one of the nicest rock stars that ever lived and b) the former drummer in Nirvana. These two facts seem to make it difficult for people to be critical of Foo Fighters. His bandâs 10th album, which Grohl has said was designed to be âan up, fun recordâ, loads many of popâs broadest tropes into a paint-gun, then splatters them over the groupâs arena-filling rock.
Foo Fightersâ hotly-anticipated 10th album doesnât quite hit the mark for reviewer Barry Divola.
Pre-release, Grohl telegraphed the fact that there were some Bowie influences, and itâs pretty obvious which tracks he was referring to â the