Foo Fighters "Sonic Highways"

Sonic Highways

The newest album to hit the world from the ever-popular Foo Fighters was "Sonic Highways" which featured songs such as"Something from nothing", "Feast and the famine" and "Congregation". This album was long anticipated by many Foo fans including me. However, much like my opinion on the Arctic Monkeys' album "AM", I believe it was much hyped and did not deliver in the same way that I had hoped.



Style

 I felt that the majority of songs from the album were aimed at a much wider audience than their current loyal fans and as a result were lacking originality. I would point out on that, I did like most of the songs on the album; I just felt that they all had a similar vibe and that there was less virtuosity like there had been on older albums such as "In your Honour" and "There is nothing left to lose". I felt that the opening riff and vocals on "Something from nothing" sounded almost identical to "Skin and Bones" from their old discography but it remains a decent song due to the raw screams that Grohl employs later into the song and the heavily distorted guitar breakdown three minutes in. As I say however, I did like the album (probably because I am a loyal Foo Fighters fan) and would recommend it to everyone.

Success

The album reached number one in the albums chart in Australia, the US top alternative billboard chart, the US top hard rock albums, and the US top rock albums. The album also reached number two in the albums chart here in the UK with "Something from nothing" making it to number one in the UK singles chart too.


 In conclusion, the album was very successful and did well in the US and the UK and particularly in the Australian charts. I personally did enjoy the album and would happily listen to every song. My only complaints are that it had too few songs on the track list and the songs seemed to lack a certain originality that was evident in the Foo's earlier albums such as "There is nothing left to lose" and "In your Honour". Thus the album was successful and popular and therefore a good album and good work from the band.