Foo Fighters have a new album on the way. Your Favorite Toy is due for release via April 24 Roswell Records/Columbia Records. Here’s everything we know so far.
What does the album cover look like?
When did Foo Fighters start dropping hints of a new album?
The band posted some Instagram reels teasing new music before unveiled a new website, where the homepage was designed to look like a bedroom with a guitar in the corner, dirty clothes on the floor, stacks of CDs, and Foo Fighters posters. When clicked on, the posters played a 10-second clip of as-yet-unreleased songs.
What did the previews sound like?
The 11 previews were too short to really tell; a few of them feature dvocals, some shoutier and less intelligible than others. One finds Grohl repeating the line “Turn the cameras off,” while another has him saying, “Lately I don’t hear the sound.” Some are more frenetic, others more melodic; some sound like intros, others more like a bridge.
How many songs are on the album?
The follow-up to 2023’s But Here We Are spans 10 tracks. The tracklist is as follows:
1. Caught In The Echo
2. Of All People
3. Window
4. Your Favorite Toy
5. If You Only Knew
6. Spit Shine
7. Unconditional
8. Child Actor
9. Amen, Caveman
10. Asking For A Friend
Have any singles been released?
The album includes last year’s ‘Asking for a Friend’, and along with the announcement, the band shared the title track, which confirms they’re leaning into a fuzzed-out garage rock sound.
Who’s the drummer on the new album?
The upcoming album will be Foo Fighters’ first with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who can be seen in one of the photographs on the website. He joined the band after leaving Nine Inch Nails, who hired Josh Freese, the drummer Foo Fighters had just fired. The full lineup for the album consists of Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, and Ilan Rubin.
What has Dave Grohl said about the album?
A couple of days after the album announcement, Dave Grohl discussed Your Favorite Toy with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “For the last year and a half I was spending a lot of time in my studio just writing and experimenting and demoing things and I’d come up with maybe like 30 or 40 different ideas,” Grohl said. “One night I was listening to all of these ideas and just randomly there were these 10 songs in a row in my playlist that were all just like noisy, loud bangers. Uptempo, like back to the old days. I was like, wait a minute, maybe this is the record. There was other stuff that sounded like Led Zeppelin’s Presence and then there was stuff that sounded kind of mellow acoustic, but I was listening to this playlist and these 10 [songs] in a row and I’m like, this is the record right here.”
Are Foo Fighters going on tour to support the album?
A tour was detailed before the album’s official announcement. Stretching from May to September, it includes support from Mannequin Pussy, Gouge Away, IDLES, Queens of the Stone Age, Die Spitz, Otoboke Beaker, Fat Dog, and more.
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