Your Favorite Toy-Foo Fighters Album Review:

Foo Fighters is back with their twelfth studio album “Your Favorite Toy” their first in three years (But Here we are). Their first with a new drummer named Ilan Rubin as the last album Dave Grohl did the drumming himself. Grohl himself said “The track title song sets the overall direction and tone of the record following an extended period of experimentation”. During 2024 and 2025 the band worked on new material, eventually shaping a set of louder, more energetic songs after the creation of the title track and this is the shortest length of any album they have made.

Grohl and company can keep making music and we all would keep listening to it. The real issue is do they need to keep making music? They are at a point in their career where they do not make trash or bad music but not every new song or album will be as good as their past releases. This album isn’t great nor is it complete trash.

There are two really bad songs in “Your Favorite Toy” the track title and “Spit Shine”. They both do not sound like their style as there is a lot of screaming grunge style. The average songs are “Of All People”, “Amen Cavemen” and “Caught in the Echo” the first track. All three do rock out but have elements that make you dislike the tracks like screaming or something.

The good tracks are “Window”, “If You Only Knew”, “Unconditional”, “Child Actor" and “Asking for a Friend”. All are good emotional songs with a softer tone but can still rock out. “Window” seems a little sad with how a window washer views the world through his window. It seems like “Asking for a Friend” and “If You Only Knew” are songs about a friend he has lost like Taylor Hawkins, which is a good thing to know he has not stopped thinking about his friend that he and the world had lost tragically. While “Child Actor” can be about being the limelight since he was young and maybe he didn’t want to be in the public eye his whole life.

In the end fans of the Foo Fighters are not going to hate this album or any other more recent release. They are just going to take the good from this album and add it to the great discography/songbook of music they like from them. This will not be theirs, mine or anyone’s favorite toy but will just be another addition to their history of making good music. It is good they can still make music even after all the tragedy this group has been through.