Newish Foo -eq Good, Not Great
I am alive, and Dave Grohl, who grew up near my hometown, is alive. And the new Foo Fighters album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, signals a welcome blowback of Foo Power, if not a true return to original 1995-1997 form.
To its credit, the guitar sound on the chorus of “Let It Die” makes me want to play music in a dark, carpeted, semi-finished basement. So it will be… right after I get Leopard / iLife 08 installed next Friday, aka “The Day Leading Into the Least Productive (from a non-computer perspective) Weekend In Recent History”.
Also positively, it’s not the Quato-esque abortion that was 2005’s In Your Honor. Which is maybe why it’s good, in the “it’s better than bad”, “Log” sense.
