A week after the Foo Fighters teased disparate snippets of a new song on their website, the band has united them into “Your Favorite Toy,” a three-minute hard-rocker that’s also the title track of their upcoming 12th album. “Get back, hear that boy?” Grohl sings over a driving guitar line. “Someone threw away your favorite toy for good.” The song, which will officially come out with the rest of the 10-track album on April 24, is the sort of taut, electrifying blend of rock-for-the-sake-of-rock, Seventies-era glitter metal and power pop that Dave Grohl and company have perfected in recent decades.
“‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album,” Grohl said in a statement. “We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”
The band recorded the album, which includes the previously released “Asking for a Friend,” at home with co-producer Oliver Roman. It’s the band’s first recording since new drummer Ilan Rubin joined the lineup.
Your Favorite Toy will arrive two weeks before the group performs at the Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida, on May 8. They’ll also play Bottlerock Napa Valley on May 23 before embarking on a run of European dates. The Foos will return to North America for an Aug. 4 gig at Toronto’s Rogers Stadium with gigs running through late September. Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy are the support acts for most of the shows.
Your Favorite Toy track list:
1. “Caught in the Echo”
2. “Of All People”
3. “Window”
4. “Your Favorite Toy”
5. “If You Only Knew”
6. “Spit Shine”
7. “Unconditional”
8. “Child Actor”
9. “Amen, Caveman”
10. “Asking for a Friend”
