Concrete and Gold by Foo Fighters
"Concrete and Gold" is the ninth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released on September 15, 2017 on the RCA label. The album's first single, "Run", was released on June 1, 2017, and topped the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart the following month. Concrete and Gold received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 73 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 11 reviews.
Following the crunchy, conceptual sprawl of 2014’s <i>Sonic Highways</i>—an album whose making was documented in an equally ambitious HBO series of the same name—Foo Fighters show no signs of slowing down. Recorded alongside The Bird and The Bee’s Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia) in just one L.A. studio, <i>Concrete and Gold</i> finds the Foos balancing Beatles-like pop (see: the psychedelic shimmer and lush harmonies of “Happy Ever After (Zero Hour)”) with metallic abandon (see also: the quiet-LOUD thrills of “Run”), all while making room for guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake and Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman. Further proof that rock’s most reliable band can still surprise us.
