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Foo Fighters: Wasting Light – review

(RCA)When a band's music takes them into stadiums, the stadiums can often then exert undue influence on their music. Thus Wasting Light is a typically supersized arena-rock barrage, with lots of howling and wailing, every chorus tailored to imaginary walls of pyrotechnics and some tracks seemingly specifically constructed to accommodate a guitar spot or drum solo. Recorded in Grohl's garage with Nirvana's Nevermind producer Butch Vig at the console and that band's live guitarist Pat Smear back...

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13:45 on April 7 2011

Foo Fighters, Wasting Light, CD of the week

The Telegraph — Wasting Light is surely the Foo Fighters's defining moment. Rating: * * * * more info

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20:59 on April 7 2011

Foo Fighters: Wasting Light – review

Guardian Music — (RCA)When a band's music takes them into stadiums, the stadiums can often then exert undue influence on their music. Thus Wasting Light is a typically supersized arena-ro... more info

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