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9.0
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9.0 |
Hot Press
An addictive collection that – like most Foos records – demands repeat playing, this is easily one of the albums of the year
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
Grohl can still subvert his own formula: opener Caught In The Echo brilliantly synthesises Ian MacKaye with Paul McCartney, and the needling pulse of Window is superior Josh Homme-age. The wired Child Actor, meanwhile, reveals a conflicted man behind the persona
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8.0
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8.0 |
Kerrang!
Foo Fighters like this feel fresh, energised and essential
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
If "back-to-basics" sounds like your ideal Foo Fighters mode, then Your Favorite Toy is one of their best to date
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
The Foo Fighters return in defiant fashion with an album that refuses to let up from start to finish
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The long-running rock band's 12th album is some of the most powerful music they’ve made
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Foo Fighters embrace the frenzy on Your Favorite Toy
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
After the numb grief of 2023’s ‘But Here We Are’, the band’s first album in the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death, ‘Your Favorite Toy’ feels like a back-to-basics blast of fresh air, with Grohl using these songs to face up to himself
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8.0
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8.0 |
XS Noize
The band have had their critics over the years, but they have found a way to weaponise their history into a razor-sharp edge that cuts through the noise and silences the “legacy” label for good
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7.5
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Consequence Of Sound
Enjoyable and familiar, but Grohl's emotional crisis sets it apart
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7.2
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Spectrum Culture
Your Favorite Toy presents Foo Fighters doing the one thing they do well: making Foo Fighters songs
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7.0
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7.0 |
Under The Radar
The rhythm evens out and picks up, the guitar drives and climbs the fretboard, and Grohl lets out one last drawn-out scream. It’s hard to not see this as more of a beginning
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
A band with a renewed sense of purpose, ready to use the pain of the last few years as an inspiration
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spill Magazine
Your Favorite Toy is a good record, one that establishes a new direction for the band and their new line up
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7.0
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7.0 |
NME
Dave Grohl leads the Foos – including new drummer Ilan Rubin – in a return to the nervy, no-frills punk of their earliest days
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6.9
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6.9 |
Pitchfork
Dave Grohl faces the backlash with the leanest, meanest Foo Fighters album in 30 years
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6.5
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6.5 |
No Ripcord
Twelve albums in, it’s natural for a band like the Foos to go wherever their instincts take them. But while they try subtle new tricks, like compressing Grohl’s vocals to almost-grating levels amid muddy sound mixing, their attempts at sounding edgy usually land in a pleasant middle ground
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
The carefree attitude is a welcoming change, but there is a sense something has been left on the table
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5.4
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Foo Fighters definitely have it in them to craft another strong album, it is maybe just a matter of time until they are truly in sync again
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5.0
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5.0 |
Exclaim
Clocking in at just over 36 minutes, Your Favorite Toy is the shortest album in the Foo Fighters' sprawling discography, though you wouldn't know that by listening to it
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4.2
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4.2 |
Paste Magazine
A retread of well-worn ideas advertised as a “return to form.” The music is never offensively bad, but it’s far from convincingly inspired
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4.2
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4.2 |
A.V. Club
The rock band’s 12th album is a retread of well-worn ideas advertised as a “return to form.” The music is never offensively bad, but it’s far from convincingly inspired
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4.0
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4.0 |
PopMatters
Foo Fighters’ Your Favorite Toy begs the question of why Dave Grohl opted to issue it as a band record when it could just as easily have been a solo album
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