By my opinion superior "In Your Honor" the Foos have absolutely established with its juxtaposition of rock and an acoustic embossed half of their double album in the elite of the rock, just by their surprisingly great, so fascinating performance in the more quiet area, with top acoustic ballads like a conveyor belt ("On the Mend", "Virginia Moon", "Cold Day in the Sun", etc.). Now is the attempt of these aspects of their ability to have contrastive shown on "In Your Honor" "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" to connect just as skillfully, unfortunately "failed" in a simple recognizable, but so difficult to repair drawback: It missing on the album distance the melodies, the good ideas in the songwriting. The boys should have perhaps slightly lift in the production of "In Your Honor" for later; because the latter were about 15 of 20 songs really great successful, one has to "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" but after about half of the plate even after repeated listening feel that there still is a gap between the first 4, 5 and the rest of the tracks consists. To avoid misunderstandings: this does not mean that the album would be bad, it's a good rock album, which should be paid every friend of this genre much to heart, but it draws its strength, different from the previous albums, from a few individual songs, and Although just off the top four, and this clearly outshine the rest. So unfortunately this is not an album flair as a Gesamtkunstwerk state how you can experience it in about "The Color and the Shape" in its purest form. Now for the hymns of praise: With "The Pretender" the Foos boards equal to going so right. If one thinks more highly of "Stairway to Heaven" for two seconds then it goes off right the first time. A typical Foo-opener with a whole lot of power and an excessive singer Dave Grohl; very strong. But it gets even much better: with "Let It Die" followed by a link suspiciously quiet acoustic passages that are repeatedly replaced by enormous rousing chorus and so lead to a truly orgiastic Grohl performance second to none. Highlight of the album for me is "Erase / Replace", with his unerring straight-line groove, his incisive guitar riffs, the restless-owned Art Grohl, again and again to rush from verse to chorus and in the latter wonderfully melodic, while the happiness but also in its characteristic screech decaying to sing as he himself has done it ever before. Wow! That the very radio friendly designed single "Long Road to Ruin" with its typical pop song structure and its simple chord progressions can keep up with such a hot piece testifies to the enormous power and the special quality of the refrain. A melody, when you can just sing along or better -gröhlen, there is no other way, "LONG ROAD TO RUIN THERE IN YOUR EYES ...". Tip, Foos. What comes after that, so I must admit I can not remember that. Oh, Track 5 is "Come Alive", not a bad song, but it falls off. And everything else is in the shadow of the top 4 (somewhat reminiscent of the English Premier League). It's nice that even quieter sounds are played, but it simply manages songwriting driven not as good as on Disc 2 of "In Your Honor". It somehow missing the kick. But enough of the complaints: "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" is a total rock-solid rock album a top band, which you should have, but that certainly is not the centerpiece of the Foo Fighters, as it is not the the long distance maintains what about the single releases promise. Not more, but especially not less.
