'There are better days awaiting, it’s true,’ Dave Grohl tells us during one of the few down-tempo breathers on Foo Fighters’ twelfth album Your Favorite Toy, and a rare moment of personal exposure too. Grohl’s albums, he’s claimed, have always been reactive life documents, each album a response to the one before and reflecting the times that engendered it. 2023’s But Here We Are was a power-rock answer to the pop-inflected Medicine At Midnight from 2021, and also a place to exorcise the grief of losing drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022.
This new record comes amid much marital upheaval and uncertainty in Grohl’s life, and, understandably perhaps, buries its turmoils beneath rather more opaque layers. There’s little revelation to be dug, for example, out of Window: ‘I’m just a puddle on the ground and I saw your face there in the window/You were a window cleaner laying in the sun…’
