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9.6
99459
9.6 |
AU Review
This is the Foo Fighters on sonic steroids
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8.3
99500
8.3 |
A.V. Club
It’s an album for rock fans and rock stars: The Foo Fighters rank among the best of both
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8.0
99396
8.0 |
PopMatters
Easily the finest album of the Foo Fighters’ 20-plus year recording career, an artistic breakthrough that hopefully marks the start of an exciting new era in the band’s continued musical odyssey
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8.0
99261
8.0 |
The Music
What Foo Fighters set out to achieve with Concrete & Gold was to challenge themselves, and in turn, they've also challenged their listeners in the best way possible
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8.0
99263
8.0 |
Mojo
Foo Fighters' most beguiling record to date. Print edition only
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8.0
99278
8.0 |
NME
The Foo Fighters’ ninth is a little bit Queen, a little bit Prince and a lot great
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7.3
99508
7.3 |
Paste Magazine
For the first time in years, Foo Fighters are taking advantage of the cachet they’ve built as the world’s safest arena rock band
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7.3
99474
7.3 |
Gig Soup
Although the album doesn’t rank alongside the group’s strongest efforts, it’s significantly more accomplished than their weakest
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7.0
99398
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Musically and emotionally, Concrete and Gold is their most balanced record yet
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7.0
99401
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
Might well be the slight course correction Foo Fighters needed to keep themselves, and us, interested
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7.0
99467
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
After a run of albums that could really be interchangeable with each other, what really sets Concrete and Gold aside from the rest is that you don’t feel this one has been written with stadiums specifically in mind
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7.0
99297
7.0 |
All Music
Foo Fighters show that they're in love with light and shade, fury and quiet, every twist and turn they can make with their instruments
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7.0
99260
7.0 |
musicOMH
After remaining stagnant for so long, Concrete and Gold is a mini breakthrough for the Foo Fighters. Progress, at last
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6.7
99262
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
Dave Grohl wasn't kidding when he called it “Motörhead’s version of Sgt. Pepper"
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6.5
99395
6.5 |
Pitchfork
Reliable, relatable, and powerful with just barely enough new ideas to keep things interesting
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6.5
99609
6.5 |
Under The Radar
If you're looking for a reinvention of the rock and roll wheel, you're generating unrealistic expectations. Instead, if you're looking for a very listenable, hard rock fist-pumper you've come to the right place
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6.3
99301
6.3 |
Earbuddy
If you’re a diehard Foo Fighters fan, Concrete And Gold lands in the middle in terms of quality. And that could be the best we hope for this long into their career
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6.0
99327
6.0 |
DIY
More interesting than one might’ve expected
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6.0
99348
6.0 |
The Observer
The stadium rockers’ ninth album boasts impressive guests but few real departures from their trademark sound
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6.0
99353
6.0 |
The FT
The album lulls with a sappy acoustic intro and then overwhelms with an immense passage of pomp rock
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6.0
99264
6.0 |
Q
A straightforward Foo Fighters album, albeit one that does occasionally fulfill its promise to deliver both aural lavishness and maximum heaviosity. Print edition only
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6.0
99289
6.0 |
The Irish Times
The album, produced by noted poptician Greg Kurstin, has a distinct direction towards a more radio-friendly sound
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6.0
99291
6.0 |
The Independent
One suspects the stridency and bluster conceals a lack of purpose, rescued from terminal mediocrity only by the sheer determination of the galloping buzzsaw guitar riffs and bulldozer drums of tracks like “Run” and “Arrows”
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6.0
99294
6.0 |
The Guardian
With guest slots for Paul McCartney and Justin Timberlake, the help of Adele co-writer Greg Kurstin and lyrics about Nazi-fixated punks, Dave Grohl finds just enough inspiration to keep the ball rolling
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6.0
99616
6.0 |
Clash
While there’s nothing that will diminish their legacy or standing in rock music, there’s very little material that pushes the band forward either
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6.0
99714
6.0 |
Exclaim
There's nothing life-changing for the band or the listener here. It's still a fun time, though
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6.0
99738
6.0 |
State
Enough anthems that nobody would be disappointed if a lot of what is contained herein ended up on their live setlist
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6.0
99456
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
The variations here on what a Foo record should be are subtle – warm backing vocals, minor genre experiments, inoffensively vague politicking – but welcome nonetheless
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6.0
99403
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Concrete and Gold is fun, it’s good-natured and full of verve, and there are parts of it that zing, but this is Foo Fighters' ninth album. Don’t they ever feel like really changing things up?
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5.8
99457
5.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Grohl is literally making albums that are dedicated to the pantheon of music that your parents listened to and, while there isn’t anything inherently wrong with that, it tends to stack up as irrelevant or classist after a while
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4.0
99420
4.0 |
Drowned In Sound
In the end, it’s the lack of direction that’s fatal
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4.0
99330
4.0 |
Evening Standard
All the usual energy but none of the feeling
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