Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (Music CD)

For Wasting Light, Dave Grohl leads his band of merry marauders -- including Pat Smear, who returns to the fold for the first time in over ten years -- through the fiercest album they’ve ever made. Nowhere is the album's tightly defined muscle felt as strongly as it is on "White Limo," a blast of heavy sleaze with guitars that ring loud and long. Perhaps Butch Vig -- working with Grohl for the first time since Nevermind -- should take some credit for the ferocious sound of Wasting Light, but the album isn’t the Foo Fighters' best since their ‘90s heyday because of its sound; it’s their best collection of songs since 1997's The Colour and the Shape, the kind of record they’ve always seemed on the verge of delivering but never have. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine