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9.0
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Spin
Much more than a salad-days nostalgia trip - it's Grohl's most memorable set of songs since 1997's The Colour and the Shape
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9.0
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Consequence Of Sound
The drought is over. Rock is back
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musicOMH
Foo Fighters have managed to keep their wheels spinning for nearly two decades, consistently turning in records that define their genre in its place and time. Wasting Light is no exception
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9.0
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Blurt
Grohl and band have created a near perfect rock record for every Generation X kid
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8.1
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8.1 |
Beats Per Minute
A refreshing step forward for a band not quite ready to age gracefully
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8.0
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PopMatters
One of the best albums of the year, and of their career
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8.0
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The Digital Fix
F***ing tremendous. It’s an absolute, blinding joy
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8.0
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State
Upbeat, unchallenging and ultimately very enjoyable
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Eleven tracks of fuzz-box brawn, mosh-pit-hurrah choruses and iron-horse momentum
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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
Foo Fighters’s defining moment
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8.0
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Evening Standard
If there's an overall feeling here, it's a sense of being relaxed with every point of a long career, ready to have some more fun
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8.0
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NME
It's both broad and focused enough to appeal to casuals and longhairs alike, and it's their best record since The Colour And The Shape
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8.0
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Q
The defining album of his career, Wasting Light is the sound of Dave Grohl putting his whole life into context. Print edition only
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8.0
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Mojo
The unabashed joy in rock is played to the hilt on their seventh album. Print edition only
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7.5
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A.V. Club
Foo Fighters’ first generally good record in six years, solid from top to bottom without the filler that marred the band’s early records
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7.0
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Rave Magazine
Delivers rock & roll stomp by the truckload
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Clash
Doesn’t develop this great band’s catalogue as it might’ve done given the personnel involved
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No Ripcord
This is as far removed from the Alternative Nation as you can get
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FasterLouder
Contains some of the most blistering songs of their career but it is ultimately let down by sub-standard rockers that should be stomping when they are trudging.
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7.0
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Entertainment.ie
Only time will tell, but this may well be the Foos' best album since 'The Colour and The Shape'
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6.4
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6.4 |
Pitchfork
Features a host of worthy set-openers, few prove to be as sticky or memorable as any number of their previous singles. There just isn't a melody or hook to really amplify
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6.0
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The Fly
‘Wasting Light won’t catch anybody by surprise
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6.0
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Independent on Sunday
Wasting Light sees the Foos jealously guard their plectrum-shaped space at the middle of a rock/ punk/metal Venn diagram, a smart and highly lucrative piece of market positioning.
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
Just another good, if forgettable, entry in the Foo Fighters catalogue
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6.0
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The Guardian
Perhaps the most satisfying Foo rocker since Learn to Fly
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6.0
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Uncut
These are good songs, but they're so boldly signposted, you can see them from miles away. Print edition only
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6.0
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BBC
Nothing more than business as usual: some killer, some filler
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6.0
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Eye Weekly
Brash, gutsy sounds
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6.0
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The Skinny
A stadium band, slumming it in the garage like when they were kids, but not quite reconnecting in the way they probably hoped
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5.0
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Drowned In Sound
It is exactly as you would have expected it to sound, and ultimately that isn't enough for anyone who doesn't rush out on the day of release to buy their albums
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4.0
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The Independent
It's a drab, unrewarding experience
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4.0
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The Observer
Rocks just fine, but takes precisely no risks with the Foos' commercially peaking, but artistically diminishing, tattooed chug-pop
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2.0
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The Irish Times
It’s as if Grohl has forgotten his one-time maxim of “the beauty of minimalism and the importance of stripped down music”. Awful, just bloody awful
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