Medicine at Midnight
| Foo Fighters
Medicine at Midnight
Medicine at Midnight is the tenth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. Originally scheduled for 2020, the album was delayed to February 5, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three singles were released ahead of the album's release: "Shame Shame" in November 2020, "No Son of Mine" on New Year's Day 2021, and "Waiting on a War" in January 2021. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
The alt-rock standard-bearers’ 10th album is the most upbeat music they’ve ever made.
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The Guardian
Medicine at Midnight – like its immediate predecessors, a solid but unspectacular album – is a success.
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Variety
Foo Fighters Get Into the Groove on Blissfully Concise ‘Medicine at Midnight’
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NME
It's slinky. It's shimmery. It gets a bit Bowie and boasts one of the best songs they've ever recorded. Album 10 is the soundtrack to the summer we all crave.
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The Independent
Robust rock’n’roll that stays in its lane.
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Kerrang!
Rather than ruing the fact that we won’t get to hear these songs live for a long time yet, we’re instead gifted the opportunity to live with them and feel some of their joy right now . And, as Dave Grohl himself agrees, that’s something worth putting out there.
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Atwood Magazine
he music is all a year old at this point, but ‘Medicine at Midnight’ still proves to be a fresh and worthy tenth entry to Foo Fighters’ expansive and impressive catalogue.
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Pitchfork
Dave Grohl’s lawful-good lifestyle presents an eternal conflict between being unable to hate the guy and being unable to enjoy the music he continues to make.
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Redbrick Music
Overall, the bands 10th LP is frequently average, and rarely excellent. Whilst some ideas show potential, it is perhaps clear that the band are not fully committed to experimentation, and as a result, ideas which could have proven that the band have more to offer than stadium anthems leave the listener yearning for exactly those types of tracks. In this way, Medicine at Midnight leaves a lot to be desired, and little to come rushing back for.
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All Music
Medicine at Midnight is a speedy, hooky, and efficient record, every bit the party album Grohl promised.
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The Wall Street Journal
The rock-focused group returns with an album that expands its sound, incorporating pop, R&B and more.
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Paste Magazine
The veteran rockers play for keeps on one of their most exhilarating records to date.
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AV Club
I enjoyed those backing vocals and ’80s riffs you mock so fiercely—is just gravy. It’s been a long year. Let’s let the Foos have their fun.
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mxdwn Music
Medicine at Midnight institutes minor changes to differentiate from past creations but doesn’t diminish their quality. This album takes refuge in the renowned sound of the Foo Fighters, which is almost comforting. Though despite failure to add zest to their musical repertoire, this album predictably rewards them with success for their trademark sound.
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Music Feeds
Medicine at Midnight is a genuinely refreshing return to form for the Foo Fighters, one that challenges the conventions of their signature sound by broadening the scope of their stadium rock ambitions. By injecting new elements and influences, the Fooey’s have reinvigorated rather than reinvented their signature sound. The result is a record that succeeds in putting the thing that made them the biggest band of their generation, their rock songwriting nous, on full display. Medicine at Midnight is the antidote for the Foo Fighters late carer malaise, it is for want of a better term, just what the rock doctor ordered.
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Louder Than War
While Medicine At Midnight may not hold so many bright golden moments as their best work, it’s great to hear that the good times are still rolling with them, and, despite the odd misstep, there is still room for them to rock out with wild and wailing guitars from time to time. After 25 years and 10 albums, it’s also good to see that they still have a trick or two up their sleeves.
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The Young Folks
In most instances, Medicine at Midnight is either a neutered version of Foo Fighters’ former glory or a quite ridiculous musical leap the group is unable to pull off. The highlights could easily fill the C tier of standard Foo Fighter album songs, but the downfalls could arguably be named the worst in the Foo Fighter discography. It’s ironic that the worst of the worst are what give the album its personality, but without them it’d be boring—instead, it’s amusing for the wrong reasons.
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DIY Magazine
With sticky melodies and a spring in its step, it’s an experiment that pays off.
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Stereoboard
‘Medicine at Midnight’ isn’t as potent as the Foos’ finest records and doesn’t contain anything close to a standout classic like Everlong, Best of You or All My Life. Yet, in spite of being a potentially risky move, the album mostly works because of the band’s undoubted passion, their commitment to evolution and clear understanding and feel for the genres they’ve incorporated.
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RTE
no game-changer, but a shot in the arm for fans.
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The Eagle
Overall, “Medicine at Midnight” is an invigorating tribute to the evolution of rock. With Grohl’s distinctive vocals, the mesmerizing instrumental work, and creative lyricism that ties it all together, the Foo Fighters’ new album is guaranteed to electrify listeners and amplify the pure power behind rock and roll.
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Hotpress
Put it this way, with Medicine At Midnight, Grohl and co. have stuck a few go-faster/get-down stripes on the side of their classic car. It’s done the motor no harm, and it still handles as well as ever.
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Maximum Volume Music
Ultimately, though two things are true here. “Medicine At Midnight” is the cure for something, pretty much, whatever you want to feel better about, and it is going to sell by the bucket load whatever.
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Sputnik Music
For the most part Medicine at Midnight is an enjoyable LP. “Holding Poison” has a Josh Homme, Them Crooked Vultures vibe to its squawking guitar riff, and, generally, every track here brings big riffs and even bigger grooves.
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Commedia
Overall, “Medicine at Midnight” gives fans a mix of songs in both genre and tonality, but there is a little something for everybody to like. It is a step up from the previous two records.
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Metro Weekly
Medicine at Midnight might be an uneven work, but as we collectively face down another quiet year for live music, its tracks might just be the pick-me-up we all need.
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WERS 88.9
In 36 electrifying minutes, he delivered with the group’s signature crunchy sound steeped in various elements of pop. It’s the band’s most upbeat album, yet still maintains a darker, moody flare.
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Gigwise
A more playful, experimental side of the Foo Fighters that we haven’t seen in years which must be encouraged further. For too long Grohl’s experimentation has been relegated to guest appearances, and more often than not, separate bands – but with Medicine at Midnight we see the start of an exciting new chapter in the band’s history. Long may they continue.
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Vinyl Chapters
Ultimately, Medicine at Midnight by Foo Fighters does its job of lifting people’s spirits – and does it well. Whilst the record may take a few listens for it to be fully appreciated, there are some innovative sounds and overall it’s fun to listen to. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely.
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Dead End Follies
When you’ve dominated rock music for decades like this, you either walk into the sunset or just start releasing songs for the sake of releasing songs. That is exactly what Medicine at Midnight sounds like.
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Ambient Light
Perhaps ‘Medicine At Midnight’ is best surmised as an album that contains something that will appeal to Foos fans both old and new. It may prove to be disappointing to those wanting an album full of pure, unadulterated in-your-face rock anthems. Either way, there is no doubt it is a beautifully crafted album, whether or not it proves to be the type of aural medicine you want or need.
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Herald Standard
The acoustic beauty of “Chasing Birds” displays the lighter side of the band before closing it all out on a rousing note with the guitar-driven punch unleashed on “Love Dies Young,” making “Medicine at Midnight” the perfect prescription for curing what ails you.
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Rock Sins
This is a largely forgettable, radio rock album by numbers, adding absolutely nothing to the Foos canon at large. This is a band at their most creatively bankrupt showings signs of slowing down. I’m not a registered doctor but I would suggest that this specific brand of medicine is more of a placebo than anything with truly lasting effects.
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Backseat Mafia
If you're diving into this album truly expecting something majorly different from them you might be slightly disappointed, but if you merely want a feel-good rock album to throw on, the band are ultimately the masters at what they do, and more power to them for it.
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Northern Lights
Medicine At Midnight is an album that I didn’t expect from the Foo Fighters. But it hits well, and despite being pop-orientated, the album still has that signature Foo Fighters feel to it. It feels like the soundtrack to a summer we all dream of.
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The Indiependent
Medicine at Midnight is a welcome addition but if you wanted something fresh and exciting don’t expect it. This is typically Foo Fighters but with an obvious attempt to try something new and once again just missing the mark.
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Liverpool Sound and Vision
In Medicine At Midnight The Foo Fighters have delivered an album that is less bounce, less but certainly more introspective, more melancholic and self-examining than arguably they have ever produced before. The album is one of strangeness, of the unfamiliar expression and whilst it is brooding, insightful, and dare it be said, beguiling and beautiful, it also finds itself as looking in a mirror that has lost its polish, the strength to show the voyeur exactly what they wish to witness, the heavy grit and grip of buoyant edginess, which has the Foo Fighters stamp firmly impressed on the heart.
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The Times
tight, muscular, all-American vigour.
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London Evening Standard
This landmark tenth album for the band is so much fun - roll on the days when we'll be able to see them perform it live.
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The Nicholls Worth
The Foo Fighters’ latest album is definitely worth checking out for both fans and first-time listeners.
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Dead Press
An unexpected turn, one that radiates energy and showcases how well oiled a machine the Foo Fighters are, ‘Medicine At Midnight’ may not bring new fans to the table, but it will sit comfortably alongside their storied back-catalogue.
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Overblown
This percussion driven album holds to the Foo Fighters’ tried and true formula while providing a new foxy consciousness to each song. All in all, here is an album that you and your dazed and confused parents can find common ground on.
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Spill Magazine
Medicine At Midnight may be their most surprising and unique album to date that ultimately furthers the range and power of the Foo Fighter’s as both performers and songwriters.
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Bring the Noise
Medicine At Midnight, has skyrocketed to a whole new level of sonic evolution, which is done to varying degrees of success. Although at times it feels padded out with too much missable pop, the full-length is packed with a new found funk and unmistakable rock.
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The Arts Desk
The Foo Fighters have changed the chassis, not the engine; the style, not the soul. But Medicine at Midnight is still a rejuvenating detour, en route to the familiar packed fields which will one day complete it.
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Steemkr
From start to finish (without exaggeration), I consider Medicine at Midnight a complete hit. This album, as well as the whole concept of it, will be seen as a possible "watershed" where the band took a liberty that belonged to them in such a bad moment when the world is living (the pandemic because of the Coronavirus) and managed to create a work full of energy, vigor, tenacity, acidity and "madness" all the way, doing all this while being who they always were: a group of very well-meaning freaks within a type industry that is so competitive and voracious.
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The Irish Times
One of the naffest rock album in years.
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Clash Magazine
Celebratory to the bone, the tenth Foo Fighters recording adventure is a bit like finding yourself on the best rollercoaster ride in town on a hot summer day, joyously terrifying in places, it ends well. Quite frankly, at this point in time, there is a strong need to connect with moments of such enjoyable intensity.
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The Forty-Five
This record was made pre-pandemic and it shows, with positivity and optimism soaked into its very bones.
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