Medicine At Midnight

ROSWELL/COLUMBIA, 2021

Ever keen to offer a snappy soundbite, Grohl has sought to draw comparisons between

Medicine At Midnight and Bowie’s Let’s Dance, but the title track’s smooth funk-rock grooves owe more to The Power Station, and Cloudspotter is more Foghat than China Girl. Singles Shame Shame (moody),

No Son Of Mine (snarly) and

Waiting On A War (reflective) make a solid case for the album’s range, but it’s the hazy, largely unheralded Chasing Birds, one of the loveliest songs Grohl has ever written, that leaves the heaviest footprint. Overall a consolidation rather than a revolution.