Want rock? Got rock. Foo Fighters press send on Your Favorite Toy, the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inducted band’s 12 studio album.
From the top, Your Favorite Toy is something to be played with. It’s raw rock from Dave Grohl and Co., housing the previously released cut “Caught In The Echo,” the title track, and “All of the People,” which the band recently performed live at the historic, 80-seat St James Church in Dingle, Ireland.
The Foos will give the album a good, solid push April 25 on the Saturday Night Live UK (Sky One), with the release of the official music video for “Window” (directed by Jake Erland), and a major jaunt, the Take Cover Tour. Earlier, the Foos previewed the album’s tracks on their website via a clickable, throwback landing page in which snippets were embedded in images of the band in the studio and on stage.
The new collection is “the most fun we’ve had making a record in years,” Grohl tells Classic Rock. The band approached it with “no rules, no pressure — just the joy of plugging in and seeing what happens.” The result, a 10-track, 36 minute effort that’s “loud, it’s melodic, it’s weird in places… but it feels like us. It feels alive.”
According to a presser ahead of the release, the LP was recorded at home and co-produced by the band and Oliver Roman (The Cribs, Wolfmother), and features the recorded debut of new drummer Ilan Rubin, who took over for Josh Freese, the veteran timekeeper who filled in for late drummer Taylor Hawkins for two years until he was dismissed by the band last May.
It’s the followup to 2023’s But Here We Are, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, for the band’s 10th top tier entry, a tally that includes two leaders (Wasting Light from 2011 and Concrete And Gold from 2017).
The Foos’ forthcoming world tour gets going with a handful of U.S. dates, starting next Tuesday, April 28 with a sold-out show at Total Mortgage Arena, in Bridgeport, CT. Then, a pan-European tour that’s slated to kick off June 10 at Unity Arena in Oslo, Norway, following by another massive North America run in August and September. Australia and New Zealand will host the rockers in November, and again in January 2027.
Watch the music video for “Window” and stream Your Favorite Toy in full below.
