10 Overrated Rock Music Albums Of The 2010s
5. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
At this point, Foo Fighters are more or less critic proof. Everyone loves Dave Grohl, and even if they don’t release anything new of note, the Foos' back catalogue and nous as a live band means they’ll tear it up on the circuit until the end of time.
One album bucked that trend of indifference, though - 2011’s Wasting Light. After the indifferently received Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which brought out Grohl’s more mellow side, the band returned to their blood and thunder bread and butter, 50 minutes of unbridled rock.
Unfortunately, it was the acoustic stuff that made Echoes worth listening to. Critics welcomed the return to the group’s roots, but the likes of Arlandria show the Foo FIghters at their career-least interesting, with first draft lyrics and the same old quiet-loud dynamics Grohl had been doing for well over two decades.
These Days fits the classic Foos mould, but it’s a Times Like These rehash, and the sheer melodrama of Walk gets a bit embarrassing. After this, the band would experiment a little more towards the end of the decade, and if the results were rarely amazing, at least they were trying something. For an act of such scale, Wasting Light is bizarrely unambitious.