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After the Foo Fighters’ last album, In Your Honor, I had finally come to terms with one of the band’s major flaws—most of their [newer] songs sound exactly the same. Like many successful mainstream rock bands, it sometimes feels like the Foo Fighters are simply rehashing the same ideas that made their first songs so enjoyable, writing slight variations of previous hits. This results in track after track of inferior imitations, as the band fails to recapture the past glory of the late 90s. For that reason, perhaps combining the best hard rock and acoustic portions of In Your Honor into a single disc would have given fans something a little more diverse and a lot more memorable.

With that said, I just read an article about their upcoming sixth album. Naturally, I would expect more of the same from them, but the article does make a few promising claims. It’ll still be an overproduced, commercial affair, but one quote from Grohl mentions crazy time signatures. This could be a good or bad thing, but at least it’s not something straight out of “Everlong.” Also, another potentially interesting development is that acoustic guitar extraordinaire Kaki King is a guest musician on one track. At the very least, it’s not Norah Jones again.

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