Concrete And Gold

ROSWELL/COLUMBIA, 2017

“Let’s make them long, let’s make them noisy, let’s make them weird,” Grohl told his band. He later likened the results to “Motörhead’s version of Sgt. Pepper” and “Slayer making Pet Sounds.”

Concrete And Gold is no such thing, but it’s undeniably a collection ambitious in scale and rich in invention, from the stacked-vocals choruses adding echoes of Queen to the sweet psychedelia of Sunday Rain, via widescreen anthems Run and The Sky Is A Neighborhood, and exploded nagging criticisms that FF were risk-averse and complacent.