Foo Fighters Concrete And Gold Out Friday

Dave Grohl has described this album as ‘Motörhead’s version of

Sgt Pepper’ – bulldozer riffs, heavy artillery, ornate melody and a tincture of psychedelia.

The surprise is that they pull it off so convincingly. Lead single Run is characteristic, with its shifting time signature, massive guitar hooks and sweetly insistent chorus. But the feel elsewhere is more postBeatles than Pepper. T-Shirt – the wonderfully grandiose 80-second opener – and the punchy The Sky Is

A Neighbourhood recall Wings at their most baroque;

Sunday Rain resembles John Lennon’s I’m Losing You sung by Dennis Wilson. Even when it misses, Concrete And Gold, produced by Greg Kurstin, is rarely boring. And when it hits – as it does often, and hard – Foo Fighters fulfil their billing as the best rock band on the planet.